NEWS RELEASE: March 23, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 213 280-0175, or Jamie Court, 310 392-0522, ext. 327 Santa Monica, CA — FTCR said a state auditor’s investigation reported today in the Sacramento Bee hints at…
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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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Ecuador Vs. Chevron
The president of Ecuador says he will join with residents of the Amazon rain forest in holding Chevron accountable for dumping billions of gallons of oily waste in the jungle over three decades. A lawsuit…
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US: BP Blamed In Texas City Blast
The United States Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board issued its final blistering report about BP’s role in the 2005 explosion at the company’s Texas City refinery that killed 15 BP employees and 180 others….
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ConocoPhillips Tries To Buy Into “Big Oil U” In Greenwash Campaign
NEWS RELEASE: March 20, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, 310-392-0522 ext. 317, cell: 310-292-1902, or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell: 310-874-9989 Disturbing trend must be stopped to preserve academic integrity at U.S. colleges, consumer advocates…
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BP “Terrified” Investigators
BP’s unsafe culture at its Texas refinery "terrified" the primary U.S. government organization investigating the 2005 explosion that was the worst U.S. industrial accident in decades, the group’s chairman said Monday. The U.S. Chemical Safety…
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FTCR: UC Berkeley Must Avoid Stanford Mistake That Allowed Big Oil “Greenwashing”
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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Alaska Senator Calls CEO Liar
Alaska Senator Kim Elton has a searing response for Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, who told Wall Street this week that doing business with Alaska was problematic because the state changed tax policies on the company….
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West Coast Refinery Profits Double
The San Francisco Chronicle reports: "Profit margins at California’s gasoline refineries are soaring. And they’re taking pump prices along for the ride. Refinery profit margins have more than doubled since last fall, according to one…
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The Editorial Not Seen in U.S. Papers
This editorial from the major daily Montreal Gazette gets it: Big Oil’s deliberate restriction of refinery capacity and gasoline stocks drives up the pump price and fills the bulging treasuries of the major oil companies….
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Where Are the Media’s Skeptics?
The airwaves and the web this morning are full of stories bemoaning the return of $3.00-a-gallon gasoline in much of California, 50 cents above the national average and nearly 45 cents above last year’s California…
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Pressure On The Pump
The Petroleum Marketing Association continues to insist it has not pressured the maker of the temperature-adjusted gasoline pump, Gilbarco Vedeer-Root, to keep its product out of the California market. Nonetheless the San Francisco Chronicle’s David…
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Oil Giants Succumb to Raccoon, Possum
Wholesale gasoline prices jumped 7 cents a gallon in the Los Angeles area Monday after a raccoon and a possum briefly shorted out power lines to the ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance and a Shell Oil…
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Hot Fuel Solution Derailed By Oil Companies;
NEWS RELEASE:March 5, 2007 CONTACT: Jamie Court (310) 392-0522 ext 327, or Judy Dugan, ext 305 Attorney General Brown, Senator Boxer called on to force sale of temperature-adjusted gasoline pump in California Santa Monica, CA…