07-09-07 by Simpson Big Oil U is marching on, and the latest extension campus, The University of Texas at Austin funded with $5 million from Chevron, is offering a new "major". Instead of alternative energy,…
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“Sticks And Stones…”
06-25-07 by Simpson Now I’m being compared to Joe McCarthy and Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels for pointing out that when a university takes Big Oil money it hurts the credibility of research done there. Big…
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BP Grant Came After Article
NEWS RELEASE June 21, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, (310) 392-0522, ext. 317;(310) 292-1902 (cell) BP Foundation’s $7.5 million Grant To Stanford Came After Favorable Research Article Santa Monica, CA — The flow of Big…
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Greasing The Wheels of Academe
06-20-07 by Simpson More Big Oil Money is greasing the wheels of academe making the nation’s big name universities little more than extension campuses of “Big Oil U.” Stanford University’s Program on Energy and Sustainable…
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Will Exxon Investors Act?
05-30-07 by Simpson A shareholder resolution offered by a group of nuns from New Jersey would have required ExxonMobil to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from both its products and operations. Though it lost at the…
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Big Oil U Marches On
05-29-07 by Simpson Chevron announced another extension campus of “Big Oil U” today saying that it would enter a research deal with Texas A&M Agriculture and Engineering BioEnergy Alliance. They say they plan to accelerate…
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Stanford shows some spine
05-22-07 by Simpson Stanford University, beneficiary of $100 million from ExxonMobil for alternate energy research, is finally standing up to the oil giant and voting in favor of an environmentally friendly shareholder proposal at the…
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Restrict Big Oil’s effort to green-wash image through UC
The following Op-Ed commentary by John M. Simpson, Stem Cell Project Director for the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, was published in the San Jose Mercury News on Thursday, May 17th, 2007. ————- Recently,…
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UC Regents Must Block “UCBP”
NEWS RELEASE: May 16, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, (310) 392-0522, ext. 317, or cell: (310) 292-1902, or Jamie Court, ext. 327 Consumer Group Calls On Regents to Block "UCBP"; Safeguards Essential To Maintain Academic…
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Blowing Smoke About Prices
By Simpson 05-11-07 API, formerly and more accurately known as the American Petroleum Institute, is behind misleading full-page newspaper advertisements trying to blame the price of crude oil for the daily outrage at the nation’s…
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Listen To Your Workers
By Simpson05-10-07 ConocoPhillips refinery workers showed up at the Big Oil company’s annual meeting and warned that budget cuts are compromising plant safety. It’s nothing new in the industry. Remember the worst industrial disaster in…
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Duke Latest To Join big Oil U
By Simpson05-09-07 Duke University is the latest institution to join Big Oil U with a pledge of $1 million from ConocoPhillip’s for the school’s Climate Change Policy Partnership (CCPP). The university describes the CCPP as…
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Wiping The Slate Clean
By Simpson05-08-07 Chevron is reported near a deal that enables the company to avoid criminal charges in the UN oil-for-food scandal. The oil giant will apparently pay $25-30 million in fines. Chevron will, according to…