This past week California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a landmark, new setback rule banning oil wells within a half mile of a home, school or business. Consumer Watchdog’s Carmen Balber and Jamie Court discuss the significance for California and the world.

Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court and Energy Director Liza Tucker discuss the impact of the Orange County oil spill and why Governor Gavin Newsom needs to take greater action to limit drilling in offshore waters and onshore too.

This month a whistleblower told CBS This Morning the California Medical Board’s failure to discipline bad doctors “costs patient lives.” Carmen Balber interviews Alka Airy, who confronted the Board’s failure to act after the death of her sister Shilpa due to medical negligence.

Mike Feuer, city of LA’s top lawyer and mayoral front runner, is under investigation by the State Bar regarding the DWP billing saga. And he doesn't want to talk about it. Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court and Justin Kloczko talk about what this means in a post-Girardi world. Will anything come of it?

Kimberly Turbin shares her traumatic story of assault during childbirth at the hands of her doctor with Carmen Balber on World Patient Safety Day. When she sought to hold the doctor accountable, 80 lawyers turned her away because of the state’s cap on compensation for medical negligence victims.

Carmen Balber talks with Consumer Watchdog Board Member RoseAnn DeMoro about her experience surviving several California wildfires, becoming a fire expert, and how a cactus wall can mitigate fire risk. As insurance companies’ downplay steps taken by homeowners’ to reduce wildfire risk, even as they continue insuring the fossil fuel projects that cause climate change, policymakers must do more.

The National Traffic Highway Safety Administration’s investigation of deaths involving Tesla’s Autopilot could result in a recall of the self-driving technology. Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court talks with an anonymous technologist and whistleblower about Tesla’s problems and the future of self-driving cars.

A new report from the special master in the LA DWP billing scandal reveals that attorneys working for the City Attorney violated the rules of ethical conduct in filing a sham lawsuit against the City. Will they and City Attorney Mike Feuer lose their law licenses? Jamie Court talks with reporter Justin Klozco about whether California State Bar will take action in wake of the other scandal involving Tom Girardi, the famous trial lawyer who allegedly stole from his clients and whose abuses were ignored by the state bar because of his political connections.

Carmen Balber talks with Angela Asatrian, a social worker-turned filmmaker who wrote, directed and produced the new documentary Never Events about the medical malpractice crisis in America. Consumer Watchdog board member Tammy Smick, patient safety advocate Michele Monserratt-Ramos and allies Annette Ramirez and Bruce Brusavich are among those interviewed for the doc about their own medical negligence horro stories and the cap on compensation that prevents families from getting justice.

Following a 2019 pay-to-play scandal, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara agreed to be transparent about its details. After a year and half of litigation over Public Records Act requests that are unanswered, Consumer Watchdog has found Lara in overt violation of the Public Records Act. Consumer Watchdog’s Litigation Director Jerry Flanagan discusses the case with President Jamie Court.