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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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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Chevron $ Makes Speaker Weak On Big Oil
NEWS RELEASE August 23, 2007 CONTACT: Jamie Court, (310) 392-0522 ext. 327, or Judy Dugan, ext. 305 Assembly Speaker’s Promised Action to Curb Gasoline Price Spikes Fails as Chevron Money Flows, Says Letter; Group Asks…
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Clueless Mary Nichols
08-20-07 by dugan When Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed former California Air Resources Board director Mary Nichols last month to head the same agency in his administration, reaction in the enviro world was mostly relief, tinged…
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Who’s Afraid of Biofuels?
08-14-07 by dugan The clearest statement I’ve seen about the motives of opponents of innovative biofuels–from oil interests to agro-industry–comes from a speech last Friday by Loren Beard, Chrysler’s senior manager for energy planning and…
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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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Just Can’t Spend It All
07-31-07 by dugan "With the world thirsty for more oil and cleaner fuels, Exxon Mobil and other oil firms have been spending billions to buy back their shares." A great sentence, but not my…
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Governor Swimming in Greenwash
07-10-07 by dugan We all know about Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s meddling-by-proxy to slow down implementation of California’s global warming bill. Now we find out, from the San Jose Mercury News , that he’s an…
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Sting Of Toxic Tones
If you watched the primetime broadcast of the Live Earth concerts last Saturday night, you may have caught the segment where Sting and his wife Trudie Styler told the 2 billion plus in the world-wide…
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After Live Earth
7-08-07 by Court The global concerts on 7-7-07 designed to raise consciousness about global climate change already have their own extensive Wikipedia entry and the question is what’s next? In the last twelve…
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Arnold Exposed
7-7-07 by Court Here’s my colleague Carmen Balber’s blow-by-blow account of today’s legislative hearing about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s role in slowing down his greenhouse gas regulators. The most juicy tidbit is the former executive director…
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Fire the Air Quality Meddlers
07-03-07 by dugan Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may think that naming a veteran air quality official like Mary Nichols to head his Air Resources Board will quiet things down. But any new appointee, even…