These 2015 SoCalGas internal emails shows the fossil fuels company discussing new federal energy efficiency standards. The document was uncovered in the course of an investigation from the California Public Utilities Commission’s watchdog.

This is a 2016 email from SoCalGas to the American Public Gas Association about climate action. The document was uncovered in the course of an investigation from the California Public Utilities Commission’s watchdog.

Southern California Gas Company (“SoCalGas”) used ratepayer money to finance a long-running campaign to undermine efficiency standards at all levels of government, particularly when the Company determined that stronger efficiency standards could threaten its business interests by making gas appliances less competitive against electric options. Yet despite the Presiding Officer’s Decision finding that SoCalGas’ actions were “improper” and “result[ed] in appreciable harm to the regulatory process,” the Decision fails to impose meaningful consequences. By not assessing penalties for SoCalGas’ blatant, well-documented violations and only requiring a return of shareholder incentives and a portion of misspent funds, the Presiding Officer’s Decision commits legal error. The Presiding Officer’s Decision is an abdication of the Commission’s responsibility to deter future misconduct and duty to impose penalties for violations of Commission requirements.

Matt Vespa, Attorney, Clean Energy Program, Earthjustice: “You got busted, and you’re out. And they just kind of slinkered away.”

Environmental and watchdog groups exposed a campaign by the Southern California Gas Company that used customer money to fight stronger energy efficiency rules at the federal, state, and local levels in a campaign that sabotaged California’s clean energy progress. From at least 2014 to 2017, SoCalGas fought efficiency rules that threatened its profits, dipping into…

Decision from the California Public Utilities Commission not nearly enough to hold SoCalGas accountable for web of deceit

The Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice, filed a brief asking the California Public Utilities Commission to hold Southern California Gas Company accountable for the utility’s long campaign to sabotage clean energy progress in California.

The consumer watchdog within the California Public Utilities Commission, the Public Advocates Office, joins Earthjustice and Sierra Club in filing a brief calling for $255 million in fines for SoCalGas.

Brief filed before the California Public Utilities Commission details six years of SoCalGas efforts to weaken federal, state, and city climate regulations

Earthjustice and Sierra Club join California lawmakers in call for accountability over SoCalGas’ unlawful efforts to stall action on climate

Through a network of front-groups, lobbyists, and PR firms, SoCalGas is funding and coordinating a misinformation campaign to greenwash gas and stoke local opposition to building electrification.

Earthjustice and Sierra Club advocated against SoCalGas in proceedings before the California Public Utilities Commission.

Families in some parts of California are footing the bill for a multi-million dollar lobbying effort to stop California’s clean energy progress.