OilWatchdog’s May 16, 2007 <a href=”https://consumerwatchdog.org/resources/CALegLtrGasPrices.pdf”>outline for a legislative agenda </a>on California gasoline prices and biofuels development, sent to the California Legislature
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CA Penalty = $7-$15 Per Fill-Up
NEWS RELEASE: May 3, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 ext. 305, cell: 213-280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell: 310-874-9989, or Tim Hamilton, 360-495-4941 "California Penalty" Reaches $7 to $15 Per Fill-Up, Report Shows; Oil…
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Chevron Kills Green Fuels
Oil Watchdog’s parent organization today sent a letter to Chevron CEO David O’Reilly that accused the company of blocking gas stations from selling renewable motor fuels, even as it claims new green credibility. As crude…
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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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Exxon Gets Stanford Inventions
ExxonMobil, one of four corporate sponsors, is giving $100 million to fund Stanford University’s Global Climate and Energy Project. The oil giant, which has regularly cast doubt on the damage caused by greenhouse gases, gets…
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“Oil Profit Monster:” A Powerful, Flexible and Free Tool
To go directly to Profit Monster’s Excel database, click here. OilWatchdog’s database pulls together quarterly and annual profits, by sector, of the five major oil companies from 2000 to the present. It uniquely includes companies…
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BP Safety Letters
Raw documents on deficient safety culture of BP
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Peak Oil
Here’s an apocalyptic but thorough argument that world oil production has peaked, and analysis of the consequences.
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How BP Killed 15
A critical report on BP safety lapses (pdf, 774pp.) by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III. The analysis of BP’s disastrous 2005 Texas refinery explosion that killed 15 people shows the contradiction between…
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Smoke, Mirrors and Hot Air
An enduring January 2007 report (pdf format) by the Union of Concerned Scientists on How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science.
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An Overview of ConocoPhillips
Here’s a report looking at ConocoPhillips’ recent activities including what its top execuitives were paid and what its profits were. The data was gathered from public records during 2006.
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An Overview of Chevron
Here’s a report looking at Chevron’s recent activities including what its top execuitives were paid and what its profits were. The data was gathered from public records during 2006.
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Big Oil, Big Lobby
The Center for Public Integrity’s report on Big Oil’s big political spending (through2004) to protects its interests. http://www.publicintegrity.org/oil/report.aspx?aid=345