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California’s latest rooftop solar proposal favors monopoly utilities over the competition – their customers
California regulators today proposed changing the state’s popular rooftop solar program largely to benefit monopoly utilities like Pacific Gas & Electric, making it more expensive for working- and...
California’s middle-income residents outpace wealthy in rooftop solar installations in 2021
Middle-income and working-class Californians represented by far the largest block of the million-plus households in the state that installed rooftop solar in 2021, according to a new Lawrence Berkeley...
PG&E asks federal regulators to extend life of aging, dangerous Diablo Canyon nuclear plant
Pacific Gas & Electric is formally asking the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to extend the life of California’s only remaining nuclear power plant – the dangerous, aging and costly Diablo...
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Biden should urge ‘windfall profit tax’ on big oil companies fleecing Americans at the gas pump
President Joe Biden in remarks today attacked oil industry giants for reaping record profits but not lowering prices that are battering U.S. consumers’ pocketbooks – and he should go a step further...
As ratepayers struggle to pay PG&E energy bills, CEO rakes in over 190 times the typical employee salary
Pacific Gas & Electric’s CEO Patricia Poppe received $51.2 million in compensation last year, more than 190 times what the utility’s average employee earns and a tone deaf windfall amid soaring energy...
Safety investigation faults PG&E’s failure to maintain aging infrastructure against wildfire risks
Pacific Gas & Electric’s aging and unmaintained infrastructure is a driving factor in the threat of California wildfires, an independent investigator found.
California Children’s Environmental Health Month shows risks of pesticides, lead
California’s proclamation of October as Children’s Environmental Health Month highlights the need to protect children from exposure to pesticides and hazardous chemicals like lead, which can result in...
Are California regulators waiting to crush rooftop solar until after the election?
Fearing voter backlash, California regulators may hold off issuing their proposed decision on a utility proposal to stifle the state’s rooftop solar program until after the November election...
Newsom signs law banning toxic ‘forever chemicals’ from cosmetics in California
On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that bans intentionally added toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS from cosmetics sold in California.
PG&E plot to sell roughly 50 percent of non-nuclear power generation to Wall Street investors reveals business model’s flaws
Pacific Gas & Electric executives are looking to sell to Wall Street investors about half the utility’s non-nuclear electricity generation capacity. The sale would take place via a new subsidiary in a...
Dangerous déjà vu: PG&E faces federal criminal probe for California’s largest wildfire of 2022
The U.S. Forest Service has launched a criminal investigation into whether a transmission pole and power line owned and operated by Pacific Gas & Electric sparked the massive Mosquito Fire, California...
Gov. Newsom strengthens California’s ability to reduce lead poisoning
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation to improve the removal of lead paint from buildings and streamline blood testing for lead levels. Lead exposure remains a serious problem. The primary sources...
California lawmakers warn state against exploiting new federal climate law to impose solar tax on constituents
Sixteen members of Congress from California are asking state utility officials to resist using the landmark Inflation Reduction Act’s incentives for expanding solar as an excuse to impose a new tax...
Gov. Newsom vetoes California bill to track and report toxic ‘forever chemicals’
On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required collection and reporting of information on products and substances sold or brought into the state containing the toxic “forever...
Study: Communities of color at greatest risk of pesticide exposure in Ventura County, Calif.
In California’s Ventura County, increased agricultural pesticide use and related toxicity risks for humans occur the most in areas with more people of color and limited resources, according to a new...
Honeywell lobbying Gov. Newsom to veto measure banning ‘forever chemicals’ from cosmetics products
Technology giant Honeywell is lobbying California Gov. Gavin Newsom to veto a bill that would ban the sale in the state of cosmetics intentionally made with the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS...
As Californians rally to conserve power amid blackout threat, state needs to protect solar, embrace clean energy future
Californians are rising to the moment by conserving power to avoid the dire threat of blackouts facing the state’s electricity grid, and now it’s time for regulators to do their part by rejecting an...
EWG: Bailout to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant running ‘dangerous and dumb’
California lawmakers have voted to approve Senate Bill 846, thereby paving the way to keep the aging Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant operating. This action can only hurt the state’s shift to safe...
California lawmakers approve bills to improve prevention of lead poisoning
Two bills that take important steps toward the prevention of lead poisoning have cleared California's legislature and now move to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is expected to sign them into law.
Last-minute change to Diablo Canyon bailout bill would impose new tax on state’s rooftop solar customers
Legislation to keep California’s last nuclear power plant operating was quietly amended over the weekend to impose a monthly tax on residential solar customers for electricity they generate and use to...