Los Angeles Times April 27, 2007 by Elizabeth Douglass & Richard Simon, Times Staff Writers Exxon, Valero profits jump; The quarterly gains, coming at a time of soaring pump prices, prompt renewed calls for legislative…
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BP Losses Offset By West Profits
NEWS RELEASE April 24, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, (310) 392-0522 ext. 305, cell: (213) 280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327 ‘Bumbling Petroleum’ (BP) Manages to Halt Record Profit Runs; Losses Elsewhere Offset by High Gasoline…
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Gov’t Staffer Takes First Class Flight to Corporate Job
The Executive Director of the California Public Utilities Commission, Steve Larson, announced that he was leaving the PUC to take a job at the Australian oil giant Woodside, according to Mark Martin, who is reporting…
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Pols’ Spring Break With Execs
4-04-07 by Court The Sacramento Bee’s Shane Goldmacher reminds us again how big oil companies get extra special time with legislators beyond what their campaign contributions buy. Goldmacher writes about a trip to Japan where…
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Greenwashing an LNG Terminal
Someone is playing a dirty trick (see full text below) regarding the giant liquefied natural gas terminal proposed offshore of Malibu and Oxnard on the California coast. This biased poll, as the Callifornia Coastal Protection…
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STRETCHED TO THE LIMIT
Oakland Tribune April 1, 2007 by Janis Mara, Business Writer SAN MATEO, CA — When Anne Siglin moved to Alameda from Chicago in 2005, she was shocked by the price of gas in the Bay…
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Exxon in Sheeps’ Clothing
In full-page ads Feb. 17 in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, ExxonMobil rewrites history, omits any pledges of actual change and blurs Exxon’s long opposition to action on global warming. The ad…
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Half Trillion Dollar Baby
Wall Street analysts have now pegged the worth of Exxon Mobil Corporation at one half trillion dollars. The $500 billion mark is based on this breakdown of Exxon’s wealth– crude oil production (45%), refined products…
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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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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…