Sempra
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">hmmn</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"><a href="https://thetransparencyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SpecialInterestBigMoney_Data.pdf">https://thetransparencyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SpecialInterestBigMoney_Data.pdf</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">dems?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Top contributing businesses: Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.; Blue Shield Of California; At&T Services Inc. And Its Affiliates; Amazon.Com Services Llc (Jeffrey Bezos); Amr Holdco, Inc.;<b> Edison International</b> & Affiliated Entities Via Southern California Edison Company; <b>Cadiz, Inc.</b>; <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Charter Communications </span>Inc. </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">gop:</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Top contributing businesses:</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Walmart Stores Inc; </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Doctors' Management Company; </span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Sempra Energy;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Pacific Gas & Electric Corp.; Marathon Petroleum</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Corporation And Its Subsidiaries; In-N-Out Burger, A California Corporation; Farmers Group, Inc.;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Edison International; Chevron Corporation </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And Its Subsidiaries/Affiliates; Anthem Blue Cross Top contributing campaigns: </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Vince Fong</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> For Assembly 2020, Gallagher For Assembly 2022, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Friends Of Frank Bigelow For Assembly 2022,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Phil Chen For Assembly 2022, Heath Flora For Assembly 2022, Marie Waldron For Assembly 2022, Jordan Cunningham For Assembly 2022, Patterson For Assembly 2022, Kiley For Assembly 2022, Devon Mathis For Assembly 2022</span></font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=
</font><div><p style="margin-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" geneva="Geneva" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> 2008, San Diego-based Sempra Energy opened a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal called Costa Azul on a picturesque stretch of beach in Baja California, Mexico, over the protests of environmentalists, residents, and surfers.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" geneva="Geneva" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Costa Azul was built on the claim that the U.S. was running out of natural gas, but now Sempra is arguing the opposite: It wants to put another facility there to export the U.S.’s glut of gas as LNG to Asian markets. And with Trump’s ongoing trade war with China prompting the Asian powerhouse to <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://desmogblog.cmail19.com/t/t-l-ukirad-yuirlyty-p/" style="color: rgb(47, 130, 222); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">slap a 25 percent tariff</a> on LNG imports from the U.S., shipping that gas from Mexico out of Costa Azul may provide a safe haven for U.S. companies with access to the Pacific Coast.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" geneva="Geneva" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Steve Horn and Martha Pskowski document the history, legal battles, and environmental costs associated with the <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://desmogblog.cmail19.com/t/t-l-ukirad-yuirlyty-x/" style="color: rgb(47, 130, 222); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Costa Azul LNG terminal and its role in the fracked gas rush</a> sweeping the U.S.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" geneva="Geneva" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">And Sempra has been busy lately. It spearheaded the recent <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://desmogblog.cmail19.com/t/t-l-ukirad-yuirlyty-m/" style="color: rgb(47, 130, 222); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">launch of the “Global Natural Gas Coalition”</a> to promote exporting fracked gas, with the support of Trump administration officials and a labor union....[china 25% tariff threat]</p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://grist.org/article/porter-ranch-ceo-got-a-3-million-bonus-after-a-massive-natural-gas-leak/">http://grist.org/article/porter-ranch-ceo-got-a-3-million-bonus-after-a-massive-natural-gas-leak/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">The <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-socal-gas-ceo-20160328-snap-htmlstory.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">Los Angles Times reports</a> that Debra L. Reed, chairman and CEO of Sempra Energy, the parent company of the natural gas producer responsible for the enormous <b>natural gas leak at <a href="http://grist.org/article/california-gas-leak-called-the-biggest-disaster-since-bp/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">Porter Ranch</a> received a $3.17 million bonus in 2015, bringing her total compensation for the year to $16.1 million.</b> But before you start moaning about the 1 percent and executive compensation, take heart: Before Reed received her bonus, her salary was cut by a whooping $130,000, or less than 1 percent of her total pay, because of the disaster. Poor thing.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">At its peak, the Porter Ranch leak <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-methane-idUSKCN0VY2QY" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">released 60 tons of natural gas <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">per hour</em></a>, and residents of the Los Angeles neighborhood reported headaches, nausea, and severe nosebleeds, as well as eye, ear and throat infections. More than 10,000 Porter Ranch residents (and two schools) were forced to temporarily relocate, which cost the company about <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-porter-ranch-restraining-order-20160225-story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">$2 million a day</a>. The leak lasted from October 2015 until February 2016.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Sempra Energy</b> is an energy company based in San Diego, California with 2007 revenues of $11 billion.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sempra Energy is the parent company of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=San_Diego_Gas%26_Electric&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="San Diego Gas & Electric (page does not exist)">San Diego Gas & Electric</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Southern_California_Gas_Co.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Southern California Gas Co. (page does not exist)">Southern California Gas Co.</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sempra_Generation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sempra Generation (page does not exist)">Sempra Generation</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sempra_LNG&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sempra LNG (page does not exist)">Sempra LNG</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sempra_Pipelines%26_Storage&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sempra Pipelines & Storage (page does not exist)">Sempra Pipelines & Storage</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sempra_Energy#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Ties_to_the_American_Legislative_Exchange_Council">Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council</span></font></h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sempra Energy has been a corporate funder of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sempra_Energy#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> See <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Corporations" title="ALEC Corporations">ALEC Corporations</a> for m</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Compensation">Compensation</span></font></h2><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline">[</span>http://grist.org/article/porter-ranch-ceo-got-a-3-million-bonus-after-a-massive-natural-gas-leak/</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In May 2007, <i>Forbes</i> listed Sempra CEO <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Donald_E._Felsinger" title="Donald E. Felsinger">Donald E. Felsinger</a>
as receiving $12.36 million in total compensation for the latest fiscal
year. He ranked 5th on the list of CEOs in the Utilities industry, and
149th among all CEOs in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sempra_Energy#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Coal_projects_sponsored_by_Sempra">Coal projects sponsored by Sempra</span></font></h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><ul><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sempra_Power_Proposal" title="Sempra Power Proposal">Sempra Power Proposal</a> (Idaho) - cancelled</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gerlach_Plant" title="Gerlach Plant">Gerlach Plant</a> (Nevada) - cancelled</font></li></ul><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Contact_Details">Contact Details</span></font></h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sempra Energy
101 Ash St.
San Diego, California 92101-3017
Phone: (619) 696-2000
Website: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.sempra.com/">http://www.sempra.com/</a></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Resources">Resources</span></font></h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></li></ol><div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" lang="en"><li id="cite_note-1"> <font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sempra.com/companies/companies.htm">"Our companies"</a>, Sempra energy website, accessed May 2008.</span></font></li>
<li id="cite_note-2"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></li><li id="cite_note-2"> <font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="reference-text">California State Government, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/article/alec-supporters-dodging-state-taxes">PAYMENTS FOR LEGISLATIVE, GOVERNMENTAL, OR CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES</a>,
state senate finance statements, 2006, referenced by In the Public
Interest report on ALEC members dodging taxes, April 18, 2012 accessed
April 2012</span></font></li>
<li id="cite_note-3"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></li><ol class="references"><li value="3" id="cite_note-3"> <font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/12/lead_07ceos_Donald-E-Felsinger_KTMW.html">#149 Donald E Felsinger,</a> Forbes.com, May 3, 2007.</span></font></li></ol>
<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Related_SourceWatch_articles">Related SourceWatch articles</span></font></h3>
<ul><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Existing_U.S.Coal_Plants" title="Existing U.S. Coal Plants">Existing U.S. Coal Plants</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alan_L.Boeckmann" title="Alan L. Boeckmann">Alan L. Boeckmann</a></font></li></ul></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">--
On March 30, 2006, the <i>San Diego Union-Tribune</i> reported that <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sempra_Energy" title="Sempra Energy">Sempra Energy</a>, the holding company for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=San_Diego_Gas_%26_Electric&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="San Diego Gas & Electric (page does not exist)">San Diego Gas & Electric</a>,
had canceled a proposed coal fired power station in southern Idaho as
well as a 1200 megawatt plant proposed for Gerlach, Nevada. <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sempra_Power_Proposal#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup>
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Sempra has been criticized for gouging consumers during the California
energy crisis by inflating the price of gas and still faces
investigation by federal and state regulators. It has been rushing to
build gas terminals in the US and Mexico in response to the high price
of natural gas while opposition to its projects mounts from groups like
Greenpeace Mexico. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=8828">[1]</a>
</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(42, 57, 96);">===</span></span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">four California Coastal Commission members appointed by Gov. Jerry
Brown have been maneuvering to <b>oust its outspoken executive director Dr.
Charles Lester. </b>This campaign to unseat Dr. Lester is an unsheathed
assault on the coastal commission’s integrity and a dire threat to the
California coast. It is also an audacious display of industry power,
which will <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/us/california-coastal-commission.html?r=0" target="blank">come to a head</a> Wednesday at the commission’s <a href="http://www.coastal.ca.gov/mtgcurr.html/#info" target="_blank">quarterly meeting</a> in Morro Bayon.
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://ecowatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cacoast750.jpg"><span class="image-container alignnone size-full wp-image-377124" style="max-width:750px;max-height:469px;">
</span></a></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 12-member coastal commission has regulatory authority over all
permits, licenses and funding approvals for projects impacting coastal
resources, including offshore oil and gas development. For more than 40
years the coastal commission has brought balance to the struggle between
advocates of clean water, healthy wetlands, unspoiled vistas, unpaved
agricultural farms and broad public access against the real estate and
energy tycoons who now seek Dr. Lester’s ouster. Dr. Lester has been the
commission’s most vocal champion for safeguarding California’s public
trust assets and preserving the coast from unwise and shortsighted
development.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Industry launched its campaign to topple Dr. Lester shortly after he <a href="http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-1008-banning-ranch-coastal-decision-20151007-story.html" target="blank">expressed skepticism</a> over the <a href="http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Coastal-Commission-May-Oust-Executive-Director-366004861.html" target="blank">proposed Banning Ranch development</a>,
which would place nearly 1,400 homes with resort and retail space on
environmentally sensitive coastal habitat and wetlands. Aera Energy, a
jointly owned affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and ExxonMobil Corp, is
a <a href="http://www.banningranchconservancy.org/20things.html" target="_blank">leading project promoter</a>.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Californians are increasingly aware of the anti-democratic clout wielded by energy barons and developers.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ongoing <a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=porter+ranch">Porter Ranch</a>
gas leak offers striking parallels and strong cautions about
Sacramento’s merger with corporate power. The Porter Ranch disaster is
the offspring of a greedy company and its delinquent regulator who
ignored a missing safety valve on a 62-year-old well for 31 years. When
the inevitable blow out happened, it took Gov. Brown 40 days to <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/07/porter-ranch-state-of-emergency/">declare a state of emergency</a> to address the largest gas leak in history—one which has displaced <a href="http://fuelfix.com/blog/2016/02/03/prosecutor-smells-crime-charges-utility-for-huge-gas-leak/#37273101=0" target="_blank">4,400 families</a>, sickened hundreds of adults and children and drawn compelling <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/12/22/erin-brockovich-porter-ranch/">comparisons to the BP oil spill</a>.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p><font size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman">Residents wonder if Gov. Brown’s cozy ties to petroleum and real
estate interests inspired his lethargy. Brown has taken $1.1 million
from real estate developers since 2011 and $2,014,570 from oil and gas
barons since 2006. <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/12/19/climate-pretender-award/2/">His sister, Kathleen Brown</a>, sits on the board of <b>Sempra Energy, whose affiliate, SoCal Gas, </b>is the culprit in the Porter Ranch well collapse. <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/22/the-porter-ranch-gas-leak-blame-jerry-brown/" target="_blank">Sempra paid her</a>
$188,380 in 2014 and $267,865 in 2013. Kathleen Brown also owns rights
to Sempra stock worth $409,945. She is a partner at a law firm that
represents the California Independent Petroleum Association (CIPA) and a
defendant in a RICO—Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization—<a href="http://rrexparris.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Draft-Second-Amended-Complaint-with-Redaction.pdf" target="blank">lawsuit</a> against Gov. Brown and the oil industry. CIPA and its members donated lavishly to Gov. Brown’s legacy ballot measure—<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_30,2012" target="_blank">Prop 30</a>.</font></span></font></p><font size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></font><p><font size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman">Beginning in 2011, CIPA joined with Occidental Petroleum to <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9c36a75698d24a888d583af76def486a/fired-regulator-brown-pushed-waive-oil-safeguards" target="_blank">persuade Brown</a>
to approve a host of illegal injection wells of the kind that failed at
Porter Ranch. In response to a direct request from Occidental’s
attorney Gray Davis, Brown <a href="http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/09/08/governor-brown-under-fire-for-axing-state-oil-regulators-and-pay-to-play-politics" target="_blank">fired two diligent public servants</a>—State
Oil & Gas supervisor Elena Miller and her boss Derek Chernow, the
acting director of the state Department of Conservation—when they
refused to issue illegal well permits.</font></span></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span data-term="goog_1781600965">Two months later</span>, on Jan. 9, 2012, Brown’s new State Oil & Gas supervisor, Tim Kustic, issued <b>Occidental</b> an <a href="https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2015/11/05/784191/0/en/Lawsuit-Uncovers-Governor-Had-State-Workers-Develop-Maps-for-Personal-Oil-Holdings.html" target="_blank">illegal permit</a>
to drill a frack well in a Kern County almond orchard without the
required environmental review designed to protect vital aquifers. <span data-term="goog_1781600966">Four days later</span>, <a href="https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/04/15/18771135.php" target="_blank">Occidental gave its first of two $250,000 contributions</a>
to the governor’s proposition to increase taxes. In a striking
expression of fealty to the carbon czars, Brown pledged on the same day
as the Occidental contribution that neither human health injuries nor
the law would deter him from continuing to serve their interests. “There
will be indictments and there will be deaths. But we’re going to keep
going,” he said.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In total, grateful <a href="http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/07/29/californias-biggest-secret-oil-industry-capture-of-the-regulatory-apparatus" target="_blank">oil and gas tycoons contributed</a>
more than $1.2 million to Brown’s proposition to increase income taxes<b>.
Brown later boasted that firing Miller and Chernow facilitated oil
development in Kern County. It also meant that millions of gallons of
contaminated waste would be injected each month into the aquifers in the
California San Joaquin Valley.</b></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In her shocking <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Money-History-Billionaires-Radical/dp/0385535597" target="_blank">new book</a>, <em>Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right</em>,
Jane Mayer reveals how a small cadre of oil titans have used their
astonishing riches to game America’s political system, capture our
regulatory agencies, corrupt our politicians in order to subvert
democracy, defy our environmental laws and push American democracy
toward a new Gilded Age for corporate kleptocracy.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">California and a handful of other states have largely escaped this
kind of hostile takeover of state government by corporate power. But
California’s democratic values cannot flourish long with Sacramento
politicians suckling at pipelines of oily cash. The move to oust the
coastal commission director is a signal that public servants with
courage and integrity that stand up to well-connected robber barons will
be crushed and silenced by government officials on industry payroll.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
As the coastal commission convenes tomorrow, the rest of the world
will be watching California, not just for how she protects her
coastlines, but how she safeguards her democracy</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">rfk2
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<h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Board of Directors</font></h1>
<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Debra L. Reed </font></h2>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Debra L. Reed became a director in 2011. She is
the chairman and chief executive officer of Sempra Energy. She is also a
director of Halliburton Co.
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>Reed is chair of Sempra Energy's <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Executive</a> committee.</em></font></p>
<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alan L. Boeckmann</font></h2>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alan L. Boeckmann has been a director since 2011.
In 2012 he retired as the non-executive chairman of the board of
directors for <b>Fluor Corp. </b>From 2002 to 2011, he had been Fluor's
chairman and chief executive officer. He is also a director of
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>Boeckmann serves on Sempra Energy's <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Compensation</a> and <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Corporate Governance</a> committees, and is chair of the <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">LNG Construction and Technology</a> Committee.</em></font></p>
<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James G. Brocksmith Jr.</font></h2>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James G. Brocksmith Jr. has been a director since 2001. He is an
independent financial consultant and the former deputy chairman and
chief operating officer for the U.S. operations o<b>f KPMG Peat Marwick
LLP.</b></font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>Brocksmith serves on Sempra Energy's <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Audit</a></em><em> and <a href="http://preview.sempra.com:81/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Environmental, Health, Safety and Technology</a> committees.</em></font></p>
<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kathleen L. Brown</span></font></h2>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kathleen L. Brown has been a director since June 2013. She is a
partner at <b>Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP. Her experience includes
18 years as a senior executive in the financial sector and 16 years of
service in the public sector, including a term as California’s state
treasurer. Prior to joining Sempra Energy’s board, Brown worked 12
years in leadership positions at Goldman Sachs Group, </b>Inc., a global
investment banking and securities firm. She currently is a director for
Forestar Group Inc., a real estate and natural resources company, and
the National Park Foundation.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>Brown serves on Sempra Energy's <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Corporate Governance</a> and <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Environmental, Health, Safety and Technology </a>committees.</em></font></p>
<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pablo A. Ferrero</font></h2>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pablo A. Ferrero has been a director since November 2013. His
experience includes more than 20 years in the energy industry, including
director and senior management positions with major South American
energy companies. Ferrero has served as director and chairman of the
board of several energy companies and industry-related boards.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>Ferrero serves on Sempra Energy’s <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Audit</a> and <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Environmental, Health, Safety and Technology</a> committees. </em></font></p>
<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William D. Jones</font></h2>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William D. Jones has been a director since 1994.
He is the president and chief executive officer and a director of
CityLink Investment Corp. and City Scene Management Co. Jones is the
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Francis Parker School.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>Jones serves on Sempra Energy's</em><em> </em><em><a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Audit</a> and <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Executive</a> </em><em>committees, and is chair of the <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Corporate Governance</a> committee.</em></font></p>
<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William G. Ouchi, Ph.D</font></h2>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William G. Ouchi, Ph.D., has been a director
since 1998. He is the Sanford and Betty Sigoloff distinguished
professor in corporate renewal in the Anderson Graduate School of
Management at UCLA. He is the lead director of AECOM Technology Corp,
The Alliance for College Ready Public Schools, The California Heart
Center Foundation, and The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. </font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>Ouchi serves on Sempra Energy's</em><em> </em><em><a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Compensation</a> and <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Corporate Governance</a> committees.</em><em /></font></p><em><em><em><em><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></em></em></em></em><h2><em><em><em><em><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4">William C. Rusnack</font></font></em></em></em></em></h2>
<p><font size="4">William C. Rusnack has been a director since
- He was the president and chief executive officer and a director
of Premcor Inc. from 1998 to 2002. Prior to 1998, he was an executive
of Atlantic Richfield Co. He is also a director of Flowserve and
Peabody Energy. He is a member of the Dean's Advisory Council of the
Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago and the
National Council of the Olin School of Business at the Washington
University in St. Louis. </font>
<font size="4"><em>Rusnack serves on Sempra Energy's <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Corporate Governance</a>, <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Executive</a> and <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">LNG Construction and Technology</a> committees, and is chair of the <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Compensation</a> committee.</em></font></p>
<h2><font size="4">William P. Rutledge</font></h2>
<p><font size="4">William P. Rutledge has been a director since
- He is the chief executive officer of <b>AcquaNano</b>, LLC. Rutledge was
chairman of CPI International, Inc. (formerly Communications and Power
Industries) from 1999 to 2004. Prior to 1998, he was the president and
chief executive officer of Allegheny Teledyne. He is also a director
of AECOM Technology Corp. He is a trustee emeritus of Lafayette College
and a trustee of the National World War II Museum.</font>
<font size="4"><em>Rutledge serves on Sempra Energy's <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Compensation</a>, <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Executive</a> and <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">LNG Construction and Technology</a> committees, and is chair of the <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Environmental, Health, Safety and Technology</a> Committee.</em></font></p>
<h2><font size="4">Lynn Schenk</font></h2>
<p><font size="4"><b>Lynn Schenk has been a director since 2008.
Schenk is currently an attorney in private practice. She served as
chief of staff to the Governor of California from 1999 to 2003 </b>and was
elected to the U.S. House of Representatives representing San Diego,
California from 1993 to 1995, serving on the House Energy and Commerce
Committee. Schenk is a director of Biogen Idec, a trustee of The
Scripps Research Institute, a member of the California High Speed Rail
Authority, a trustee of the University of California San Diego
Foundation and a member of the University of San Diego School of Law,
Board of Visitors.</font>
<font size="4"><em>Schenk serves on Sempra Energy's <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Compensation</a> and <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Environmental, Health, Safety and Technology</a> committees.</em></font></p>
<h2><font size="4">Jack T. Taylor </font></h2>
<p><font size="4">Jack T. Taylor has been a director since February
2013. He was the chief operating officer-Americas and Executive Vice
Chair of U.S. Operations for <b>KPMG</b> LLP from 2005 to 2010. From 2001 to
2005 he served as the Vice Chairman of U.S. Audit and Risk Advisory
Services for KPMG. Mr. Taylor is a director of Genesis Energy, L.P.,
Murphy USA Inc. and the Christus Schumpert Health System Foundation.</font>
<font size="4"><em>Taylor is chair of Sempra Energy's <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Audit</a> committee and serves on the</em><em><a href="http://preview.sempra.com:81/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml"> Environmental, Health, Safety and Technology</a> and <a href="http://preview.sempra.com:81/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Executive</a> committee</em><em>s</em><em>.</em></font></p>
<h2><font size="4">James C. Yardley </font></h2>
<p><font size="4">James C. Yardley has been a director since May
- He was executive vice president of<b> El Paso Corporatio</b>n and
president of its pipeline group from 2006 to 2012. Yardley was also
president and chief executive officer of El Paso Pipeline GP Company
LLC, the general partner of El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P. from 2007
to 2012. He is a director of the National Forest Foundation. </font>
<font size="4"><em>Yardley serves on Sempra Energy's <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Audit</a> and <a href="http://www.sempra.com/about/governance/board-committee-charters.shtml">Environmental, Health, Safety and Technology</a> committees.</em></font></p>
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