Robert Birgeneau, UCB Chancellor, has written a letter to the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights pledging that the university will ensure discoveries made at the proposed energy institute funded by a $500 million deal with…
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Execs’ Feud Led to BP Blast
Tensions in the executive suite contributed to the disaster at BP’s Texas City refinery, according to an internal confidential report described in The Financial Times. British Press Association Reporter of the Year Sheila McNulty writes…
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Big Oil Buys Berkeley
Oil giant BP’s proposed research deal with UC Berkeley is threatening to push academic integrity aside in favor of profits, writes author Jennifer Washburn in the Los Angeles Times. "This is shameful " says Washburn,…
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Stanford Claims Independence In ExxonMobil Deal, But Pact Details Show Otherwise;
NEWS RELEASE: March 26, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, 310-392-0522, ext. 317, or 310-292-1902 (cell) Key part of research agreement remains secret Santa Monica, CA — Stanford University President John Hennessy was asked today by…
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BP “Terrified” Investigators
BP’s unsafe culture at its Texas refinery "terrified" the primary U.S. government organization investigating the 2005 explosion that was the worst U.S. industrial accident in decades, the group’s chairman said Monday. The U.S. Chemical Safety…
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Conoco Joins Eco-Bandwagon
ConocoPhillips announced Wednesday that it will follow other oil giants in increasing research for alternative sources of energy. It said it would increase spending on biofuels and other alternative energies to $150 million, or about…
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Will Conoco Invade Iraq?
ConocoPhillips has its eyes and hopes set on Iraq’s oil-rich West Qurna field. "We’re doing a lot of work with the ministry and Lukoil on developing" a plan for West Qurna, Bill Berry, executive vice…
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Exxon Gets Stanford Inventions
ExxonMobil, one of four corporate sponsors, is giving $100 million to fund Stanford University’s Global Climate and Energy Project. The oil giant, which has regularly cast doubt on the damage caused by greenhouse gases, gets…
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Donor Pulls Funds Over Exxon Deal
Appalled by advertisements from oil giant ExxonMobil touting its sweetheart deal with Stanford University, movie producer Steve Bing has rescinded a pledge to donate $2.5 million to the school, The San Jose Mercury News reported…
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Investors’ Hit on Global Warming Inaction
A group of leading US investors named ExxonMobil and ConocoPhlillips to its Climate Watch List, a list of 10 companies that have been identified as lagging behind their industry peers in their responses to climate…
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Just Good Friends?
Bush Administration regulators are so tight with lobbyists from the companies they’re supposed to oversee that they buy $1 million vacation homes with them. Only nine months before approving a deal to let ConocoPhillips delay…
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An Overview of ConocoPhillips
Here’s a report looking at ConocoPhillips’ recent activities including what its top execuitives were paid and what its profits were. The data was gathered from public records during 2006.
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An Overview of Chevron
Here’s a report looking at Chevron’s recent activities including what its top execuitives were paid and what its profits were. The data was gathered from public records during 2006.