Rage for Justice Report

Pointing to windfall profits reported by California oil refiners to their investors, Consumer Watchdog Executive Director Carmen Balber discusses with Jamie Court a new report showing that a windfall profits tax is needed to bring California gas prices under control and outlining how to structure the tax.

Consumer watchdogs Jamie Court and Justin Kloczko discuss how pending federal legislation could strip Californians of new landmark privacy rights, including the right to be free from pregnancy surveillance, if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Californian, doesn’t stop it.

Jamie Court discusses recent oil refiner investor profit reports with CW Energy director Liza Tucker. California's Big 5 oil refiners' profits doubled to $26 Billion — more than $1 per gallon.

Permit re-approvals for old, unproductive and idle oil wells shot up 124% this quarter over last year, approvals that threaten Californians’ health, Consumer Watchdog’s Carmen Balber and Liza Tucker discuss. Environmental justice activists disrupted business as usual this week at the state’s oil & gas regulator to protest the Newsom Administration’s lax oversight.

Why do Californians pay more for their gas than any other state? Consumer Watchdog Executive Director Carmen Balber talks with Jamie Court  about how oil companies are making huge profits at the gas pump, and an upcoming bill to do something about it.

Carmen talks with UCLA’s Dr. Jack Needleman about his new study finding that California could reduce medical errors and save $245 million annually by updating the state’s cap on medical malpractice damages and increasing incentives to make health care safer. A legislative deal forged to head off a November 2022 ballot initiative would update the cap after 47 years, and index it for inflation going forward. The bill AB 35 is on the way to Governor Newsom

Jamie Court talks with Consumer Watchdog board member Scott Olsen, whose son survived medical malpractice, about a new legislative deal to increase the California cap set on medical malpractice survivors’ compensation in 1975 and never indexed for inflation.

Carmen Balber and Consumer Watchdog Litigation Director Jerry Flanagan talk government transparency and protecting public records from government purges. AB 2370 would require state agencies to keep records for two years – a response to recent whistleblower revelations that the California Department of Insurance was seeking to automatically delete employee emails after 6 months.

Carmen Balber and Justin Klozcko discuss an explosive KNBC-TV investigation that revealed City Attorney Mike Feuer was calendared at a meeting where his office okayed an extortion scheme to keep the DWP billing debacle from becoming public.

Jamie Court talks with Justin Kloczko the author of a new report detailing the privacy problems posed for consumers from connected cars and points to new rules to be developed in California as a potential model across the country, if the rules can withstand lobbying by the powerful auto and insurance industries.