NEWS RELEASE March 12, 2007 CONTACT: Jamie Court, 310-392-0522, ext. 327, or John M. Simpson, 310-292-1902 (cell) Stanford should make its research public immediately. Santa Monica, CA — UC Berkeley must not allow one of…
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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from oil giant ExxonMobil touting its sweetheart deal with Stanford University, movie producer Steve Bing has rescinded a pledge to donate $2.5 million to the school, The San Jose Mercury News reported…
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BP-Berkeley’s Fuzzy Formula
BP has been taking some heat from faculty and students at UC Berkeley who don’t like the idea of the university’s $500 million partnership with the energy giant to develop bio-fuels. The real question is…
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CEO’s Wall Street Magic Show
Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson went to Wall Street with the twin goals of promoting Exxon’s stock and letting the public and Congress feel Exxon is putting its profits back into energy production. Tillerson said Exxon…
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The ‘Cool on Warming’ Institute
Now that the major oil companies have been forced by public scorn to back away from their overt denial of global warming, they’re hiring the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to take up the cause. The…
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Coolant For The Hot Fuel Market?
The Kansas City Star reports that Americans may well have a way out of the $2.3 billion they overpay at the pump each year because of the "hot fuel" scam. In a nut shell, when…
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Exxon in Sheeps’ Clothing;
NEWS RELEASE:February 16, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 ext. 305, or cell: 213-280-0175 Oil giant lies, evades in full-page ads across the country, group says Santa Monica, CA — In full-page ads today in the…
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Green Talk Wraps Same Old Chevron, Exxon
Chevron CEO David O’Reilly wants U.S. shorelines surveyed at half a billion dollars in taxpayer expense, then opened to more oil drilling–and he’d like to stop states like California that try to curb global warning…
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Big Oil’s Hot Air in Houston
NEWS RELEASE: February 13, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 ext. 305, or cell: 213-280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327, or cell: 310-874-9989 Oil CEO’s presence at energy summit is about image, not change, says group…
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What is Alternative Fuel Anyway?
Chevron CEO David O’Reilly has been traveling America to convince the American people his company is committed to alternative fuel development. To show its commitment, Chevron claims it will be investing a couple of billion…
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Exxon’s Pennies for Environment on Earth Day
NEWS RELEASE: April 20, 2006 CONTACT: Jamie Court (310) 392-0522 ext 327, Judy Dugan ext 305 $400 million for retiring chief, $10 million for alternative energy research Santa Monica, CA — ExxonMobil invested less than…
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White House Pal Against Global Warming
<p>In this cozily worded 2003 <a href=”http://www.greenpeace.org/international/assets/binaries/ceimemo.swf”>e-mail</a> obtained by Greenpeace, Myron Ebell of the Exxon-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute writes to Phil Cooney, then a senior official at the White House Council for Environmental Quality, about…