An Oregon fiscal analyst has filed a class action lawsuit against the major oil companies alleging that the sale of motor fuel above a certain temperature cheats motorists. The suit by Shonna Butler, reported by…
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Archive | Misdeeds
RSS feed for this sectionDocumenting industry actions that demonstrate immorality, greed, or disregard for others.
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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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Driver Budgets Burn At Pump
Politicians are fiddling while motorists burn through their budgets. The federal government’s weekly gasoline report shows national prices up another dime last week, to $2.671 for regular and California at $3.228, nearly 56 cents above…
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Alt-Fuels Restricted Everywhere
Check out this detailed Wall Street Journal follow-up to OilWatchdog’s investigation of Chevron’s resistance to renewable fuels at their gas stations. It also tells how companies other than Chevron effectively bar the sale of high-ethanol…
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CEO Gets $27 Mill In Stock As Gas Prices Break Records
Chevron CEO David O’Reilly received $27.8 million in stock options this week just as the price of gasoline hit record highs in O’Reilly’s hometown in Northern California, closing in on 4 bucks per gallon at…
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Chevron Talks Green, Yet Prevents Retailers From Selling Renewable Fuels
NEWS RELEASE:March 29, 2007 Contact: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 ext. 305, cell: 213-280-0175; Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell: 310-874-9989; Tim Hamilton, 360-495-4941 Letter to Chevron CEO Marks Launch of New Web Site, www.OilWatchdog.org Santa Monica, CA…
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For Big Oil, Bad News=Profit
Crude oil is up $1 today on speculation about Iran and the West coming to blows. Gasoline also continues upward, to $2.60 nationally and $3.20 in California, according to the AAA fuel gauge. Yet even…
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Shame Totem For Exxon
Alaska carver Mike Webber has created a totem to memorialize how ExxonMobil has yet to pay its debt to Alaskans on the 18th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill. Webber’s shame totem pole, carved from…
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Execs’ Feud Led to BP Blast
Tensions in the executive suite contributed to the disaster at BP’s Texas City refinery, according to an internal confidential report described in The Financial Times. British Press Association Reporter of the Year Sheila McNulty writes…
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State Regulators’ Favors to Oil
A state auditor’s investigation reports that a regulator and his supervisor in the California Department of Conservation appeared to be fast-tracking drilling or other permits to oil companies while the employees concealed their investments in…
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Valdez’s Sister Still Afloat
Exxon still has not paid the $2.5 billion in punitive damages it owes 30,000 Alaskans from the Valdez spill. Exxpose Exxon has now uncovered that the world’s richest corporation is hardly showing remorse in its…
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State Risk Seen in Chevron-Yukos Deal
California State controller John Chiang has sent a letter to the state employees’ huge retirement fund known as CalPERS, advising it to be wary of Chevron’s attempt to buy the tainted assets of Russia’s dismantled…
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Stanford Claims Independence In ExxonMobil Deal, But Pact Details Show Otherwise;
NEWS RELEASE: March 26, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, 310-392-0522, ext. 317, or 310-292-1902 (cell) Key part of research agreement remains secret Santa Monica, CA — Stanford University President John Hennessy was asked today by…