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Oct 8, 2026
Catherine HockingHOST
The National Conference of Weights and Measures performed an exhaustive four-year study to determine whether any changes to current procedures were necessary to compensate for temperature and determine that no changes were necessary.
Catherine HockingHOST
Judy Dugan, former research director for the California advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, says the temperature variation between day and night at an individual gas station is apt to be negligible.
Catherine HockingHOST
She adds that today's tanks tend to keep the gasoline at the same temperature it's delivered for a while.
Catherine HockingHOST
If fuel is warm when it's delivered to a station, it'll still be warm when it's sold a few hours later.
Melissa BumsteadGUEST
So on paper, they're legally not radioactive.
Melissa BumsteadGUEST
Committee to Bridge the Gap, Physicians for Social Responsibility of Los Angeles, and Consumer Watchdog sued Boeing over this 10 years ago.
Melissa BumsteadGUEST
And Boeing, I don't understand how...
Melissa BumsteadGUEST
Well, actually I do, but Boeing won the lawsuit to not only say that these buildings are not radioactive, they came out of this lawsuit with not needing government oversight, hardly any government oversight, no accountability, and they're allowed to take the debris from these buildings to...
Ben AllenGUEST
And again, it's just not, it's not just me saying that.
Ben AllenGUEST
I mean, Consumer Watchdog, which that's the group that founded, you know, those are the interveners, the people that wrote Prop 103.
Ben AllenGUEST
They said that her proposal would take tens of billion dollars just to start.
Ben AllenGUEST
It could be wiped out by one fire.
Tino RossiGUEST
Legislative leadership is supportive of it.
Tino RossiGUEST
Housing groups, opposition, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association generally opposes taxes for the exact reason.
Tino RossiGUEST
Looks like there's some
Josh HooverHOST
veterans groups.
Josh HooverHOST
Yeah, there's some veteran groups
Tino RossiGUEST
supporting as well.
Tino RossiGUEST
So they're doing a good job on the yes side, building the coalition.
Tino RossiGUEST
So it actually allows them to spend about 10% more money, but it also saves 10% more money and avoids them having to deal with the GAN spending limits so quickly.
Carrie JohnsonCORRESPONDENT
Alito does not own stock in those energy giants, but his financial disclosure says he has investments in Phillips sixty-six and ConocoPhillips.
Carrie JohnsonCORRESPONDENT
Consumer Watchdog says the decision to step aside is the right move.
Carrie JohnsonCORRESPONDENT
Federal judges are required to step aside in cases where their impartiality might reasonably be questioned.
Carrie JohnsonCORRESPONDENT
But at the Supreme Court, that decision is up to individual justices.
Kelsey ReichmannHOST
Through dark money funded amicus briefs and the justices' financial connections, White House argues that the Supreme Court has been captured in the same way that mining or railway industries influenced government regulations in the past.
Kelsey ReichmannHOST
According to a report from the nonprofit Consumer Watchdog, 25 organizations that filed briefs in support of Suncor and Exxon had ties to fossil fuel companies, climate denial groups or others with financial ties to the industry.
Kelsey ReichmannHOST
Over a dozen of the organizations received direct funding from ExxonMobil or other entities linked to billionaire Suncor investor Paul Singer.
Sheldon WhitehouseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The amount of money spent on the operation to capture the court.
Carrie JohnsonCORRESPONDENT
Alito does not own stock in those energy giants, but his financial disclosure says he has investments in Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips.
Carrie JohnsonCORRESPONDENT
Consumer Watchdog says the decision to step aside is the right move.
Carrie JohnsonCORRESPONDENT
Federal judges are required to step aside in cases where their impartiality might reasonably be questioned.
Carrie JohnsonCORRESPONDENT
But at the Supreme Court, that decision is up to individual justices.
Egberto WilliesHOST
Others, however, came on the side of the fossil fuel industry among 38 briefs.
Egberto WilliesHOST
Back in Suncor and ExxonMobil, Consumer Watchdog found that 25 of them have documented financial ties to fossil fuel companies on the dark money networks behind decades of climate denial.
Egberto WilliesHOST
Three, listen to this, three major U.S. insurance trade associations, the American Property Casualty Insurance Association, the Complex Insurance Claims Litigation Association, And the Reinsurance Association of America also submitted a brief in support of the defendants, in support of the oil companies.
Egberto WilliesHOST
These trade groups weren't part of Consumer Watchdog's analysis, but insurers, including members of these very associations, have their own story to tell.
Egberto WilliesHOST
of financial entanglement with the fossil fuel industry.
Egberto WilliesHOST
Like others helping the fossil fuel industry dodge accountability, the insurance sector has well-documented financial ties to oil and gas companies.
Steve SkrovanHOST
And it's been a very powerful anti-tax initiative that to this day still affects California.
Steve SkrovanHOST
I'd be interested to hear more, and I think we probably touched on this before, about proposition that you were talking about, Prop 103, which Harvey Rosenfeld of Consumer Watchdog was the leader on.
Steve SkrovanHOST
He brought you in and you did.
Steve SkrovanHOST
It was about auto insurance rates and how you defeated the auto insurance company by going up and down Route 5, up and down California with kind of a grassroots campaign that defeated all the television ads they did.
Claudia BrancartHOST
In state news, a consumer advocacy group is questioning whether California's strategy to get insurers to write more policies is working.
Claudia BrancartHOST
Consumer Watchdog analyzed rate filings from ten insurers and found they've received over five hundred million dollars in rate increases while committing to write roughly twelve thousand new policies.
Claudia BrancartHOST
Executive director Carmen Balber points to Allstate as an example.
Claudia BrancartHOST
The company committed to adding two thousand policies in 2028, despite having dropped seventy-four thousand policyholders since 2023.
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