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Press Release

Chevron Counts on Jigsaw Puzzle of Safety Regulation to Escape Oversight, Accountability, Says Consumer Watchdog

7. August 2012

Santa Monica, CA — Monday night’s explosion and hours-long fire at Chevron’s large oil refinery in Richmond, Ca., released toxic chemicals including sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide in unknown amounts, sending hundreds of local residents to local hospitals with breathing and eye complaints. Yet the state agency with the most expertise in regulating such toxins, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, claims it has little to no oversight of dangerous substances produced in refinery accidents, said Consumer Watchdog.

News Clipping

Oil Drops 14%, Gas Only 3.4% – Fuel Prices Vary Significantly

By Staff Writers

31. August 2011

“There’s an old saying in [the] gasoline [industry],” Judy Dugan, research director for Consumer Watchdog in Santa Monica, Calif., said Monday. “Prices go up like a rocket and down like a feather. There is a higher disconnect between the actual price of oil and the price of gasoline.” Gasoline prices have been viewed as the “last bastion of competition,” Dugan said, “but in this case that appears to have failed.” Still, gasoline prices in the state vary significantly.

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Gas Prices Keep Soaring As U.S. Fuels Other Countries’ Growth

By Michael Buettner , THE PROGRESS INDEX (PETERSBURG, VA)

11. April 2011

California-based nonprofit, Consumer Watchdog, recently provided a clue to where the “missing” gasoline may have gone. Recently, Judy Dugan, a petroleum market commentator for Consumer Watchdog, noted that the shares of oil refiners jumped in price last month “on bets that Japan would soon have to import a lot more heating oil and gasoline because of refinery fires and quake/ tsunami damage.”

Blog Post

Facts of Life On High Gas Prices: It’s the Speculators & Oil Companies To Blame Not Middle East

Posted by Jamie Court

8. March 2011

While skirmishes in Libya and uncertainty in the Middlie East are nice cover for outrageous gasoline prices, the fact is the same old suspects are making a killing from sky-high gas prices approaching $4 dollars per gallon in California: big oil companies and greedy speculators.

Blog Post

Nigeria=Mexico?

Posted by Judy Dugan

7. September 2010

Mexico’s huge national oil company, Pemex, has shut down a large chunk of its natural gas fields because of the apparent kidnapping of dozens of employees and contract workers by drug gangs that are also…

Blog Post

Beware BP spin on size record

Posted by Judy Dugan

1. July 2010

7-01-2010 by dugan BP’s devastating oil spill may now be the largest accidental spill in modern history, bigger than the estimated 140 million gallons spewed by the 1979-80 Ixtoc spill off the coast of…

Blog Post

Burgess: ‘Scaring me now’

Posted by Khan Shoieb

17. June 2010

Hayward’s ‘scary’ testimony Liveblog by Khan In response to Rep. Burgess’ questions concerning the specific nature of the Macondo well, Hayward continues to assert that he does not have specific information, demonstrating an embarassing [or…

Blog Post

Hapless state gets it on climate

Posted by Judy Dugan

24. November 2009

11-24-09 by dugan California doesn’t have many bright spots lately, what with a new $21 billion hole in its budget, more than 12% unemployment and a hapless state Legislature. But its prospects looked up…

Blog Post

Did Chevron run a sting?

Posted by Judy Dugan

3. September 2009

09-03-09 by dugan Maybe it’s just my cynical nature, but Chevron’s "smoking gun" video alleging corruption in Ecuador has its fishy points. Chevron has gotten some media on a charge that a video it…

Report

Who’s killing the U.S. dollar?

Posted by Judy Dugan

28. August 2009

08-28-09 by dugan Did you hear the one about how the Bush administration used the wrong calculations last year when it declared that it wasn’t financial speculation causing the huge oil spike price? It’s…

Blog Post

Truth in greenwashing

Posted by Judy Dugan

28. May 2009

What If Chevron Ran An Honest Ad Campaign? Instead of just making fun of Chevron’s fake environmentalism, what if someone made them tell the truth? Jeff Grubler of InsaneReagan actually did it, producing…

Blog Post

A tar sands mole gets whacked

Posted by Judy Dugan

26. May 2009

05-26-09 by dugan 05-27 update: The NRDC has agreed to remove itself from the "advisory committee" for the pro-oil sands study described below and and denounce or at least dispute the study’s findings. An e-mail…

Blog Post

Can Chevron take a joke?

Posted by Judy Dugan

26. May 2009

05-24-09 by dugan Organized protest has come a long way from crude cartoons and thrown-together "white papers." For tomorrow’s annual meeting at Chevron’s San Ramon, CA, headquarters, a loose environmental and activist coalition has produced…

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