10-12-07 by dugan It’s easy to smell a rat when Chevron and other oil companies seem to be getting a subsidy on the backs of California consumers. It’s often hard to tell how the…
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‘Hot Profits, Global Warming’
1-05-07 by dugan Tyson Slocum, who runs the energy program at Public Citizen with Joan Claybrook, is an oil industry analyst who writes with great clarity. This report, "Hot Profits, Global Warming," was written…
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Students Warn About “UC-BP”
Rally, T-shirts Warn Cal Could Become “UC-BP”; $500 Million BP Deal Near Completion As Big Oil Pumps Money Into Colleges Berkeley, CA — Oil giant BP must not be allowed to use a $500 million…
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Ethanol Glut’s Other Villains
10-4-07 by dugan Chevron, BP, Exxon and friends talk a big game on renewable fuels, but it’s like Silicon Valley vaporware: all buzz, nothing in production. That’s the other half of the story on…
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Nichols Sells Oil, Keeps Chocolate
09-26-07 by dugan When longtime air-quality expert Mary Nichols took the top job on California’s Air Resources Board in July, jaws dropped when she disclosed her family stock holdings: lots of oil, coal…
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“Boston Legal” Pillories Big Oil U
NEWS RELEASE September 26, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, (310) 392-0522, ext. 317, or (310) 292-1902, cell Big Oil U Pilloried On "Boston Legal" Season Premiere; $500 Million BP Deal at Berkeley Near Completion; Oil…
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Not Cooking With Gas In CA
9-24-07 by Court Turns out that ambitious reform plan Speaker Nunez promoted for the cameras this summer has fizzled. Surprise, surpise. The only legislation on Governor Schwarzenegger’s desk at the end of session are…
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$80 Oil and the ‘Enron Loophole’
Here’s something worth getting out of bed for at 6 a.m. (Pacific time) teleconference. The federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission is holding a day of hearings Tuesday on what are called "dark markets." These…
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Cruising On the Company Dime
Tuesday night’s big dinner outing at the Western Weights and Measures Conference was a nice social occasion, a touristy dinner cruise on a calm Lake Tahoe. The sky was alive with stars we never see…
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The Crown for Cynicism Goes To….
09-10-07 by Dugan The first person to tell me today that Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez’s fake cure for the "hot fuel ripoff" had passed the Legislature was from an oil marketing organization. He was…
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Tablespoons of What?
09-07-07 by dugan It’s good to have a Congress unafraid to throw facts in the face of misinformation. Rep. Dennis Kucinich and the staff of his Domestic Policy subcommittee today answered the Federal Trade Commission’s…
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Iraqi Three-in-One
09-04-07 by dugan The media’s Iraq focus this week is on Gen. David Petraus’s predictable one-hand, other-hand report on the progress of the "surge." Yet there’s little Western-media reporting from Dubai and Istanbul,…
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Hijackers, Part 2
08-28-08 by dugan Oil distributor’s lobbyist Tim Columbus wasn’t done with the Weights and measures meeting when I finished the last post. His next move was to pull from his pocket a list of…