Energy

Wanted: Court To Block Building Of LA Basin Power Plants We Don’t Need

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Thu, 10/06/2016 - 16:24

If no one ever explained this, Californians might want to know that the California Public Utilities Commission has constitutional status. The PUC is where the buck stops on regulation of investor-owned utilities, so what it says goes—even when the billion-dollar projects it approves are needless and destructive of the environment. 

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California Committee Looking At High Gas Prices Sets Its Sights on Market Power

Submitted by Cody Rosenfield on Thu, 08/18/2016 - 13:06

The Energy Commission committee charged with finding a solution for California’s high gas prices has sometimes been a hostile place for consumers over the last year and a half. At Tuesday's meeting, that changed. The Air Resources Board, NRDC, four members of the committee, and even oil trader Vitol SA echoed Consumer Watchdog to question refiners' market power and lack of transparency for price spikes.

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VIDEO: Brown's Dirty Hands

Submitted by Mark Reback on Wed, 08/10/2016 - 06:00

Governor Brown has walked the world speaking out against climate change. But an exhaustive review of his Administration's actions shows they've often helped oil, gas and utility companies at the expense of the environment and the consumer, and that contributions from the companies often followed.

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Fooled Again? Western Grid Is Big Game At End of Session

Submitted by Jamie Court on Wed, 08/03/2016 - 06:29

The stage is being set for another end-of-the-session swindle of the consumer and the environment by some of the same cast of characters who took the state to the cleaners the first time.  

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Brown's PUC Overhaul More Cosmetic Than Substance

Submitted by Jamie Court on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 12:22

Governor Brown and legislative leaders announced a series of agreed-upon reforms to target the corruption that's haunted the Public Utilities Comission during the Brown-era and immediately prior to it. 
 

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Will The Legislature Rise to the Ratepayer Challenge Of Reversing Era of Billions In Ripoffs?

Submitted by Jamie Court on Mon, 06/06/2016 - 08:19

On Sunday, the Los Angeles Times laid a challenge right at the door step of the California Legislature.  Ivan Penn's article about the billions ratepayers have overpaid for their electricity due to construction that has not proven useful to ratepayers cries out for a legislative fix to restore the doctrine of "used" and "usefulness" for new projects.
 

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