7-2-07 by Court The independent state auditor should investigate the reason for the dismissal of Air Resource Board Chairman Bob Sawyer after the resignation of Board executive director Cartherine Witherspoon today. The public…
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“Independence” Behind Firing
6-29-07 by Court The other shoe over Arnold Schwarzenegger’s firing of the Air Resources Board Chief Bob Sawyer dropped in the LA Times today. Sawyer says the entire issue is political independence and his…
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Nothing Satisfies ‘T Rex’
06-27-07 by dugan You’d think, after the Senate dropped from its energy bill anything that might give heartburn to Big Oil, that ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson would be grinning ear to ear. But…
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Rustbelt Ally Smacks Detroit
06-27-07 by dugan It’s one thing when the bicoastal literati with clean, soft hands slam the Detroit clique that opposes any mandatory improvements in auto efficiency standards. It’s completely another when a fellow, and…
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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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A World of ‘If ‘On Energy Bill
06/22/07 by dugan Yes, at least the Senate’s energy bill vote yesterday wasn’t about opening US coastlines to unlimited drilling and tearing up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to get at maybe six months’…
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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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Senate Energy Bill Redux
6-20-07 by Court What a difference a year makes. Last year oil companies were denying they had a hand in global warming and the big US Senate debate was whether to open up the…
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E85: Energy Bill Orphan
It’s hard to keep up with what’s in and what’s out of the energy bill at this point, but here’s a reminder, courtesy of Washington’s The Hill blog, that big bucks for biolfuels won’t…
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Gas Guzzlers On The Way Out?
Public pressure and consumer purchasing choices might finally get U.S. automakers to stop making excuses and start raising the fuel efficiency on many of their vehicle models sold in America. On Sunday, the New York…
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OPEC’s Threat Against Biofuel
OPEC today threatened to cut its investment in oil drilling, sending prices “sky-high,” if the U.S. and Europe even move toward any significant switch to biofuels. It sounds just like Big Oil’s threat to…
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Big Oil vs. OilWatchdog
06-04-07 by dugan It’s the most exciting debate since… Paris Hilton’s Prison Sentence? Read me taking on Tom Tanton of the Exxon-funded Institute for Energy Research, in the LA Times’ Opinion section “Dust-Up" online. We…