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Did Kamala Harris Spike PUC Investigation To Help Her Democratic Friends?

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 11:30
Kamala Harris with PG&E Lobbyist Willie Brown

Why has CA Attorney General Kamala Harris issued search warrants for the offices of utilities and their regulators in a PUC corruption scandal and then not followed through? Could it be because she doesn't want to hurt powerful Democratic friends? That is what a KPBS investigative reporter is exploring.

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Brown's Probation Initiative Gut-and-Amend

Submitted by Carmen Balber on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 11:59

Governor Jerry Brown's use of the new “Ballot Initiative Transparency Act” has made the citizen initiative process look more like legislative sausage-making.  

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Toxics Regulator’s Negligence Leaves Californians Paying For Exide Cleanup

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Wed, 02/17/2016 - 15:57

Governor Jerry Brown’s announcement that the state will spend $176.6 million to clean up a wide swath of East Los Angeles in the wake of Exide Technologies’ decades-long lead contamination is a major victory for the people who live near the shuttered lead battery recycler.

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Panel Serves Up Tepid Recommendations For Reforming The Toxics Agency

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Tue, 02/16/2016 - 10:51

While Governor Jerry Brown vetoed Senate pro Tem Kevin de León’s signature legislation a year ago to revamp the Department of Toxics Substances Control (DTSC), he approved funds for an Independent Review Panel to advise what to do with the profoundly dysfunctional agency. In vetoing the powerful legislation, Brown signaled that he wants business as usual.

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The People v. CPUC’s Michael Picker

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Tue, 02/09/2016 - 14:33

The president of the California Public Utilities Commission secretly meets in a Warsaw hotel room with a Southern California Edison executive and eventually ratepayers wind up paying 70 percent of the $4.7 billion tab to shutter the defective San Onofre nuclear power plant. Does that president sound like Michael Peevey, now under criminal investigation for alleged ex-parte communications, obstruction of justice, and other transgressions?

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Special Report: Will The Leak At Porter Ranch & PUC-Gate Ruin Brown’s Legacy?

Submitted by Jamie Court on Thu, 01/21/2016 - 19:06

Does Jerry Brown see that the stink from the growing natural gas leak in Aliso Canyon and other utility scandals could also be the cloud that tarnishes his legacy after four terms of having voters’ favor?

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