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Ahead of tomorrow’s anticipated release of BP’s second-quarter financial statements–and of the massive losses–BP is expected to appoint Managing Director Bob Dudley to replace Tony Hayward as CEO during tonight’s board meeting in London. Hayward…
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Retailers, refiners say ups, downs hit them too By Alison Sider, ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Though gasoline prices have fallen from nearly $4 a gallon in the summer of 2008, now hovering close to $2.60 for a…
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OK, BP has confessed the Photoshop fakery that made its crisis control room look a lot busier by making blank monitors look live. BP blamed it on a free-lance photographer working for them–though as blogger…
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$20 Billion for "Clean Coal"? by Khan Shoieb Senators John Rockefeller IV (D-WV) and George Voinovich (R-OH) have reportedly come out with a bill that would give massive subsidies to the coal industry over the…
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Given the fury directed at BP in Congressional hearings on the Gulf oil spill, you’d think the time was ripe to cut the oil industry’s ridiculous subsidies–amounting to at least $40 billion per decade, according…
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7-01-2010 by dugan BP’s devastating oil spill may now be the largest accidental spill in modern history, bigger than the estimated 140 million gallons spewed by the 1979-80 Ixtoc spill off the coast of…
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6-24-10 by dugan BP is touting restoral of its robot-damaged "cap" (which looks like a giant hat for the Tin Man) to corral a large fraction of the company’s Gulf oil spill, but is…
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06-23-10 by dugan Californians are getting sick to death of corporate-sponsored ballot initiatives. And they’re catching on to who’s behind the slogans, voting down two deceptively marketed initiatives on the June ballot that were…
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06-23-10 by dugan The latest round of state political contribution reports show that Chevron has given another $250,000 to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s huge political slush fund, the "California Dream Team." That makes a…
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Consumer Watchdog Joins Group of Advocates in Letter to Rep. Conyers to Assist Families of Deceased Oil Rig Workers 06-23-10 by Khan Consumer Watchdog has joined groups promoting justice and consumer advocates in a letter…
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Final Thoughts by Khan BP will have to evaluate long and hard as to whether Hayward’s strategy today–be evasive as possible for seemingly legal reasons–was worth the public excoriation that is starting to pile on….
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Hayward: "Blow out preventers…across the world…not fail safe" Liveblog by Khan Hayward tells Rep. Barton that he thinks one of the biggest industry lessons going forward will be to make sure the blow out preventers…
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Mocking Barton Website Is Up Liveblog by Khan Thanks to the NYT for this tip, a website mocking Joe Barton’s performance this morning: http://joebartonwouldliketoapologize.com/
