
California Saves Water–But Faces $300M Rate Hike
Californians are about to be punished for exceeding the 25 percent statewide mandatory water savings edict with $300 million in conservation-related rate hikes.

Californians are about to be punished for exceeding the 25 percent statewide mandatory water savings edict with $300 million in conservation-related rate hikes.

California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Chief Administrative Law Judge Robert Mason recommended that ride-sharing service Uber be suspended from operating in California for 30 days and fined $7.3 million for wilfully violating its 2013 CPUC settlement by failing to provide data proving that Uber and its California drivers do not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, neighborhood or medical disability in picking up passengers.

With oil prices falling by 45 percent in the last year, the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) just decided the way utilities priced energy for 100 years is wrong and intend to mandate that 70 percent of Californians pay much more for energy.