09-03-09 by dugan Maybe it’s just my cynical nature, but Chevron’s "smoking gun" video alleging corruption in Ecuador has its fishy points. Chevron has gotten some media on a charge that a video it…
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Coal: Save me, kill the planet
7-7-09 by dugan The big energy bill produced by the House of Representatives is jammed with billions of dollars of concessions to the U.S. coal industry, pinned to the promise that coal-burning industries will,…
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How oil bucks lubed climate bill
7-2-09 by dugan Here’s a great explanation, copublished by Greenwire and the New York Times online, of how the oil and energy industries steadily weakened the big climate change bill in Congress, and why…
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A one-cheer climate victory
6-26-09 by dugan I’m certainly not a big fan of the House energy and climate bill that received a fake debate and a mini-filibuster before passing 219-212 in the House of Representatives today. By fake,…
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Reality check on oil prices
6-22-09 Nothing changed in the real world today–economy still shrinking, gasoline consumption near 10-year lows. But speculators who doubled the price of crude oil and sent prices at the pump shooting up got some kind…
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‘Heavy oil’ = Heavy pollution
06-17-09 by dugan Chevron’s evasions about its "upgrade" of a Northern California refinery to process dirtier, heavier oil got in well-deserved trouble with a state judge recently, thanks to unrelenting pressure from people who live…
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Oil guys just make it up. Again.
06-03-09 by dugan The investigative journalists of the nonprofit ProPublica are dogged (and mostly alone these days) in following the oil industry’s push to get natural gas out of shale. How do they…
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Does Congress have the guts?
05-02-09 by dugan Oil companies have ruled in Washington for a couple of decades, paying lower federal fees than in any other developed country. There’s a shimmer of a hint that situation might change….
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A tar sands mole gets whacked
05-26-09 by dugan 05-27 update: The NRDC has agreed to remove itself from the "advisory committee" for the pro-oil sands study described below and and denounce or at least dispute the study’s findings. An e-mail…
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Can Chevron take a joke?
05-24-09 by dugan Organized protest has come a long way from crude cartoons and thrown-together "white papers." For tomorrow’s annual meeting at Chevron’s San Ramon, CA, headquarters, a loose environmental and activist coalition has produced…
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Send a ‘cleaner, cheaper’ fax
5-19-09 by dugan Just in time for President Obama’s decision to boost mileage standards for cars and light trucks, Consumer Watchdog has a blueprint for getting there without heaping unnecessary costs on consumers. We grade…
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Cheaper & Cleaner Fuel Solutions
As President Obama Orders Tough Tailpipe Regulations, Consumer Group Offers ‘A’ to ‘F’ Solutions for Cleaner and Cheaper Transportation Americans Want Green Solutions But Worry About Costs; Handbook Identifies Wasted Billions, Best Paths Washington, DC…
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Biofuels’ bad rap needs do-over
04-20-09 by dugan The biofuel industry was robbed by the California Air Resources Board, says a letter today from scientists at the Sandia National Laboratories. The biofuels industry has been crying foul since the California…