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    A Change to Regulating California?

    This week comes a push to do something about those state agencies that are responsible for regulating and overseeing companies, whose environmental records have been less than stellar… even, perhaps, criminal.

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    Person smiling broadly wearing glasses and plaid shirt against ivy-covered wall background.By Steve Chiotakis • Feb 5, 2016 • 9m Listen

    State regulators have been under intense scrutiny in recent history, overseeing utilities that are shutting down or shoring up nuclear power plants; dealing with an environmental disaster that’s displaced thousands of people; even trying to coordinate the cleanup of a now-shuttered battery plant that poisoned the soil – and people – of homes nearby. So this week comes a push to do something about those agencies that are responsible for regulating and overseeing companies, whose environmental records have been less than stellar -- even, perhaps, criminal.

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      Steve Chiotakis

      Afternoon News Anchor

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      Benjamin Gottlieb

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      Ben Adler

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      Jeremy B. White

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