11-15-07 by dugan Listen up, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, Conoco and BP. A little family-owned gasoline station in West L.A. (location below) called Conservfuel will soon be the first in Los Angeles and second in…
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Group Urge UC To Reject BP Deal
The Daily Californian November 6, 2007 by Stephanie M. Lee Groups Urge UC To Reject BP Deal In a letter sent Friday to the UC Board of Regents, three national organizations urged the campus to…
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UC-BP About to Open
10-30-07 by simpson The contract covering the $500 million deal for BP to fund the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) at UC Berkeley is about to be signed. Though the project was announced last February, negotiators…
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Nichols Sells Oil, Keeps Chocolate
09-26-07 by dugan When longtime air-quality expert Mary Nichols took the top job on California’s Air Resources Board in July, jaws dropped when she disclosed her family stock holdings: lots of oil, coal…
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Hot Fuel’s Spreadsheet Crew
08-27-07 by dugan I’m in Chicago with the weights and measures regulators, at the nerd meeting to surpass all nerd meetings. I’m mostly nerd myself, and loving it. But the real story is that…
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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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Now, the Real Energy Bill
08-06-07 by dugan After much public brouhaha, the House and Senate versions of the energy bill are headed to the much more private place where the real bill will be written: a House-Senate conference committee….
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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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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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‘Coal Cash’ for Montana
06-19-07 by dugan (Late update: The worst measures to subsidize liquid fuel from coal, including Sen. Tester’s, were voted down late today in the Senate. Coal may still get big handouts, but this bill…
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Time to Fight, Not Succumb
06-13-07 by dugan Oil companies are like the bad boyfriend who reacts only enough to prevent you from leaving, and keeps lowering your expectations. That’s our situation with gasoline hovering above $3.00 a gallon…
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Tesoro to pump up refinery funds
Los Angeles Times June 4, 2007 by Elizabeth Douglass, Times Staff Writer Tesoro to pump funds into refinery; The firm plans to invest $1 billion in its plant in Wilmington to boost production for the…
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Snake Oil For Foreign Oil
5-29-07 by Court The New York Times outs the coal industry’s latest scheme to turn high gasoline prices into a giant subsidy for coal-to-liquid fuel. The industry argues our energy should be coming from Middle…