California Takes the Lead on Curbing Big Oil Price Gouging
This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here.Behind the Scenes at Gerard Piqué’s Kings League FinalsSpiking gas prices, spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and oil industry profits of $200 billion prompted widespread calls last year for price-gouging investigations. President Biden even threatened to impose a windfall tax on Big Oil if it didn’t invest some of those record profits into lowering costs. But the sector’s financial secrecy, and its efforts to blame…