Author Archives | Jamie Court
Jamie Court - who has written 73 posts on Oil Watchdog.
Jamie Court is the President of Consumer Watchdog and author of The Progressive's Guide to Raising Hell.
The Los Angeles Times calls Court "a tireless consumer advocate." The Wall Street Journal writes, "He's notorious for his dramatic, sharp-tongued attacks on the health- and auto-insurance industries, and on any politician who takes their campaign cash."
Court helped to pioneer the HMO patients' rights movement in the United States, sponsoring successful laws in California and aiding them elsewhere. He has also led major corporate campaigns to reform insurers, banks, oil companies, utilities and political practices. Court is a regulator commentator on National Public Radio's "Marketplace" program and on the Los Angeles Times op-ed page.
Court has also worked as an advocate for the homeless and as a community organizer. He has a degree in history from Pomona College.
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Facts of Life On High Gas Prices: It’s the Speculators & Oil Companies To Blame Not Middle East
While skirmishes in Libya and uncertainty in the Middlie East are nice cover for outrageous gasoline prices, the fact is the same old suspects are making a killing from sky-high gas prices approaching $4 dollars per gallon in California: big oil companies and greedy speculators.
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Consumer Watchdog Exposes Koch Industries on Times Square Superscreen For Pollution, Tea Party Funding, and Climate Change Denial Using Coke Parody
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
New York, NY — A national consumer group is running a 30 second commercial on a Times Square Superscreen that challenges Koch Industries, “the largest oil company you’ve never heard of,” for its record of environmental degradation, political influence, Tea Party funding and climate change denial.
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Taking on Koch Industries in Times Sq.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
If you walk through the heart of Times Square today and look up at the 520 sq. ft. CBS superscreen on 42nd St., you’re going to be introduced to the largest oil company you’ve never heard of: Koch Industries. Consumer Watchdog is running a 30 second commercial parodying a Coca Cola advertisement on a Times [...]
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Big Oil Behind The Tea
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
When Californians angry about oil companies’ attempt to repeal the state’s greenhouse gas emission cap went to confront the oil refiner behind Prop 23′s power play, they found the Tea Party in their way. What’s an angry populist movement that’s supposed to represent real people doing defending oil companies? It’s a question the New York [...]
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Sex, Drugs & Bush Admin
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
This just in…The Inspector General at the Department of the Interior found, according to the Associated Press, "Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties partied, had sex with and accepted golf and ski outings from employees of energy companies they were dealing with." Wow! And we thought Dick Cheney’s relationship with the [...]
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Variety thumbs up to GasHole film
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
If you want to know the true story about why gasoline prices are $4.25 per gallon, check out the gripping new documentary GasHole when it comes to your movie theatre, hopefully this Fall. Two creative actor/directors, Scott Roberts and Jeremy Wagener, are the force behind this amazing flick that’s opening in New York and LA [...]
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Senate climate debate derailed
Friday, June 6, 2008
6-6-08 Court Shame on the United States Senators who refused to let climate change be debated today. An end-of-the week filibuster has finished Senator Boxer’s bill over how to deal with global warming and climate issues. The irony is that the legislation was more of a compromise than scientists, experts and consumer advocates thought was [...]
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Senate Debates Climate Finally!!
Monday, June 2, 2008
US Senator Barbara Boxer today finally brought the historic debate over climate change to the US Senate. 74 Senators voted to proceed with a debate, thwarting a filibuster threat. As Senator Joe Lieberman noted at the pre-motion press conference, this is the first time the US Senate will be debating remedies for global warming in [...]
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Pumping Up The Dow
Monday, February 11, 2008
2-11-08 by Court Looks like the Dow Jones is looking for some speculative boost to the topsy-turvy, overall-sagging fortunes of Wall Street. Altria (aka Phillip Morris) and Honeywell are off of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Chevron and Bank of America are in. The Wall Street Journal alert says, "The change is the first in [...]
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Human Energy?
Sunday, September 30, 2007
9-30-07 by Court Chevron’s latest advertising campaign, which gives the company the tagline "Human Energy," is a classic study in how large rogue corporations try to show themselves as having a soul and human meaning. The 2.5 minute infomercial on 60 minutes tonight (see the ad in the link in Ad Age) tries to [...]
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Not Cooking With Gas In CA
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
9-24-07 by Court Turns out that ambitious reform plan Speaker Nunez promoted for the cameras this summer has fizzled. Surprise, surpise. The only legislation on Governor Schwarzenegger’s desk at the end of session are two bills endorsed by Big Oil. For the record, here’s the final wrap-up of this year’s edition of "As Big [...]
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Insider’s Theory On FTC/Issa Ghost Writing
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
9-11-07 by Court Our source in the industry, Insider, offers these observations about how the oil industry has historically stolen Congress’s and the FTC’s masthead: As Oilwatchdog.org demands that Rep. Darrell Issa of San Diego release a letter he wrote to the Federal TradeCommission requesting its opinion on the "hot fuel" issue, don’t [...]
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After Live Earth
Sunday, July 8, 2007
7-08-07 by Court The global concerts on 7-7-07 designed to raise consciousness about global climate change already have their own extensive Wikipedia entry and the question is what’s next? In the last twelve hours, I have seen two e-mail proposals circulating among green-tech’s avante garde to capitalize on the momentum for plugin hybrid [...]
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- Taking on Koch Industries in Times Sq.
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