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Column: As help pours in for World War II vet, 102, with huge bill, SoCalGas wants a rate hike
1 year, 9 months ago

Column: As help pours in for World War II vet, 102, with huge bill, SoCalGas wants a rate hike

LA Times  

Paul Hult, a 102-year-old World War II veteran shown in his Hollywood apartment, reluctantly decided to accept help after he received a $526 gas bill. The utility’s parent company, Sempra, is lining up lucrative natural gas contracts in Europe, and paying its executives obscene amounts of money while SoCalGas sticks it to customers, Rogers said. “They have failed miserably, which …

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California declared war on natural gas. Now the fight is going national
1 year, 10 months ago

California declared war on natural gas. Now the fight is going national

LA Times  

This story originally published in Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment. Rep. Ronny Jackson’s response typified the outrage from conservatives, with the Texas Republican tweeting, “If the maniacs in the White House come for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands.” Sen. Joe Manchin III, the West Virginia Democrat, joined with …

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Angry about your gas bill? Spikes follow big raises for California utility executives
1 year, 10 months ago

Angry about your gas bill? Spikes follow big raises for California utility executives

LA Times  

One of about 100 environmentalists taking part in a demonstration in front of the Sempra Energy building in downtown San Diego last May protesting the company’s fossil fuel businesses. Several Southern California residents complained Thursday to the agency that oversees the state’s public utilities about the monopoly power of Southern California Gas Co. and San Diego Gas & Electric, which …

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Relief from sky-high gas bills is coming: California regulators order utilities to rush credits
1 year, 10 months ago

Relief from sky-high gas bills is coming: California regulators order utilities to rush credits

LA Times  

In response to a recent spike in the price of natural gas, the California Public Utilities Commission voted Thursday to pay annual gas and electric credits to consumers as soon as possible. “It is not a long-term solution to the trend we’re seeing around volatile natural gas prices,” Reynolds said, pointing to another commission meeting scheduled for Tuesday to discuss …

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SoCalGas says skyrocketing gas bills will drop significantly in February
1 year, 10 months ago

SoCalGas says skyrocketing gas bills will drop significantly in February

LA Times  

Cooking with gas could get less expensive for Southern California consumers next month. With astronomical natural gas prices squeezing the pocketbooks of Southern California Gas Co.’s 21.8 million customers, the company says relief may be on the way as soon as next month. The utility attributed the drop in consumer gas prices primarily to a commensurate drop in the wholesale …

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Gas blowout near Los Angeles leads to up to $1.8B settlement
3 years, 2 months ago

Gas blowout near Los Angeles leads to up to $1.8B settlement

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of families sickened and forced from their Los Angeles homes after the nation’s largest-known natural gas leak have reached a settlement of up to $1.8 billion with a utility, attorneys said Monday. The settlement with Southern California Gas Co. and its parent company, Sempra Energy, will compensate 35,000 plaintiffs from the 2015 blowout that took nearly …

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The San Diego energy company doubling down on fossil fuels
3 years, 4 months ago

The San Diego energy company doubling down on fossil fuels

LA Times  

This is the Aug. 12, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. “There’s a mountain of change between where we are here and where we would need to be.” A great deal of that change could involve California fossil fuel companies — including some that are working …

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California sued over climate change policy — by the nation’s biggest gas utility
4 years, 4 months ago

California sued over climate change policy — by the nation’s biggest gas utility

LA Times  

Southern California Gas Co. is taking its battle with state officials over climate change policy to court, arguing in a new lawsuit that the California Energy Commission has failed to promote natural gas as required by state law. A separate lawsuit was filed last week against the state’s Air Resources Board by the California Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition, whose two …

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Is America’s biggest gas utility abusing customer money? A California watchdog demands answers
4 years, 5 months ago

Is America’s biggest gas utility abusing customer money? A California watchdog demands answers

LA Times  

The nation’s largest gas utility has spent months fighting an investigation by a California consumer watchdog agency, saying the company’s constitutional rights are being trampled and refusing to give regulators full access to its financial records. The Public Advocates Office also unearthed a March 2019 work order in which a SoCalGas executive authorized nearly $28 million for “balanced energy” activities. …

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