4-02-08 by dugan I didn’t get time yesterday to post on a House select committee’s grilling of executives from the major oil companies, but as the chairman, Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, pointedly…
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“Get a Grip” View on Ethanol
3-24-08 by dugan Leave it to the Canadians to stay calm. Consider Frank Dottori, founder and former CEO of a multibillion-dollar forest products company. Nowadays he’s heading a project to turn forest and…
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Chevron’s Goliath Strategy
3-19-08 by dugan The Oakland-adjacent and working class city of Richmond, Calif., is on the verge of allowing Chevron to proceed with a huge, contentious "upgrade" of its refinery there so it can…
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Defending Cheaper, Cleaner
3-19-08 by dugan There’s no single path to an affordable and clean energy future, and that’s a good thing. After all, the monoculture of petroleum dependence has brought us $4.00 a gallon gasoline,…
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Deadly Plug-In Hybrids!
3-14-08 by dugan I’m happy to admit that Earth would be better off if we all hiked or biked to work, got our power from solar panels on the roof, wore parkas indoors rather…
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What? Politics at the EPA?
2-26-08 by dugan Here’s a (not) shocking development. Newly released documents show that the oil buddies at the White House may have interfered in the Environmental Protection Agency’s rejection of California’s new tailpipe…
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Congress Yawns At $3 gasoline
2-18-08 by dugan Where’s Congress? When it comes to oil and gasolne prices, our elected officials are has hard to find as Waldo. Speculators today shoved oil prices are back up to $96…
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Another Big Oil U Warning Issued
1-21-08 by simpson The prestigious Center for Science in the Public Interest has joined us in warning of the dangers Big Oil money poses to university research. In a report issued today CSPI says…
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Distract ‘Em From the Chevy Volt
1-18-07 by dugan My greenwash antenna is waving madly. GM chief exec Rick Wagoner made a splash at the Detroit auto show earlier this week, announcing an investment in cellulosic ethanol. He offered no…
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Mr. Oil’s Different World
1-17-08 by dugan As most of us don’t remember offhand, the price of crude oil a year ago was $52 a barrel. I looked it up after reading a speech that Red Cavaney, longtime head…
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EPA “Disappears” the Evidence?
12-21-07 by dugan Today’s award for worst job in the world goes to EPA spokeswoman Jennifer Wood. She’s saying that an EPA staff Powerpoint presentation defending California’s right to regulate auto emissions can’t be…
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Sue their Brains Out!
12-19-07 by dugan The ink wasn’t dry on President Bush’s energy bill signature today when the White House denied California’s waiver request to enforce its greenhouse emissions law. Obviously this was a signed-and-sealed plan….
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Energy Bill: Crumbs or Loaves?
12-19-07 by dugan Looking at the energy bill, I’d say Congress is settling for crumbs and trying to count them as loaves–at least until 2009 and TEOB, "The End of Bush." That leaves a…