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Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com
Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com. Originating on Pacifica Radio's KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles and syndicated coast-to-coast and around the globe! NOW FIVE DAYS A WEEK!
'BradCast' 4/10/2023 (Guests: Center for Bio Diversity's Kassie Siegel on CA's Big Oil price gouging law; Attorney Ernie Canning on abortion lawsuits in TX, ID)
04-10-2023 (52.58 MB)
On today's 'BradCast': California has enacted a landmark new law, signed Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, that establishes provisions to finally hold Big Oil accountable for price gouging consumers in the state. KASSIE SIEGEL, Director and Senior Counsel of the non-profit Center for Biological Diversity's Climate Law Institute, explains the framework of the first-of-its-kind law that grants state regulators the authority to investigate the pricing processes of major oil companies and refineries, and if necessary, impose penalties for excess profits in a state where Big Oil has made the bulk of their record profits over the past year. Siegel discusses the pros and cons of the new law, how it will work, criticisms from the oil industry and environmental groups, whether it could be a model for other industries (hello, Big Pharma and internet providers), and much more. Then BradBlog.com legal analyst ERNEST A. CANNING explains two different abortion-related lawsuits in Texas and Idaho. Canning dismantles the nutty ruling by a far-right activist judge in Texas that seeks to nullify the FDA's 20-year old approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, and explains a lawsuit brought by physicians and Planned Parenthood in Idaho, challenging the state's extreme, near-total abortion ban, and how it violates numerous provisions in the U.S. Constitution.
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