10-04-07 by simpson I supplied the T-shirts and The Student Campaign to Stop BP at Berkeley offered up a demonstration to drive home the potential damage of Big Oil U on one of the…
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Students Warn About “UC-BP”
Rally, T-shirts Warn Cal Could Become “UC-BP”; $500 Million BP Deal Near Completion As Big Oil Pumps Money Into Colleges Berkeley, CA — Oil giant BP must not be allowed to use a $500 million…
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“Boston Legal” Pillories Big Oil U
NEWS RELEASE September 26, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, (310) 392-0522, ext. 317, or (310) 292-1902, cell Big Oil U Pilloried On "Boston Legal" Season Premiere; $500 Million BP Deal at Berkeley Near Completion; Oil…
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“Boston Legal” Focuses on Big Oil U
9-26-04 by simpson ABC’s Boston Legal likes to base its plots on real life and the plot of last night’s season premier was drawn from Big Oil U campuses at Stanford University and UC…
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BP Funds Another Campus
9-10-07 by simpson San Juan College School of Energy in Farmington, NM, has just announced it will receive $750,000 from BP over the next three years to train natural gas field technicians. San Juan College…
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Fall semester delayed at “UC BP”
08-30-07 by simpson Students have returned to college campuses across the country, but there apparently is a delay in the fall semester for Big Oil U’s largest extension campus at the University of California at…
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BP Got The Message
08-24-07 by simpson Bumbling Petroleum – BP – finally listened to the expressions of outrage about its plans to increase pollution pumped into Lake Michigan after it completes a $3.8 billion refurbishing of its Whiting,…
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Doing The Right Thing
08-21-07 by simpson Remember the all night session when the California Assembly rammed through a budget deal? The accompanying package included SB 98, a tax-break package that would have benefited Chevron. It’s took 52 days…
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Will Dynes’ Legacy = UCBP?
NEWS RELEASE: August 13, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, (310) 392-0522, ext. 317, or (310) 292-1902, cell Consumer Advocates Warn Dynes Legacy Must Not Be Commercialization of UC System Santa Monica, CA — Robert C….
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Invest Wisely, Don’t Pollute
08-01-07 by simpson BP – Bumbling Petroleum – is deservedly under fire for plans to dump more toxic ammonia and mercury into Lake Michigan and spew more pollutants into the air as part of a…
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Sleazy Tax Deal Benefits Big Oil
7/24/07 by Simpson Chevron stands to be one of the big beneficiaries of a tax break estimated to cost California more than $850 million in revenue when fully implemented. Speaker Fabian Núñez rammed the bill,…
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Things Could Blow Up
07-10-07 by Simpson If you’ve been lulled into a calm acceptance of oil industry practices by the barrage of warm, fuzzy and reassuring industry ads, take heed of a message from Carolyn Merritt, chairwoman of…
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BP Launches Alaskan PR Blitz
07-10-07 by Simpson Oil Giant BP is fighting back from its damaged image in Alaska last year resulting from a major oil spill caused by a lack of proper maintenance. The massive statewide PR campaign…