07-10-07 by Simpson Oil Giant BP is fighting back from its damaged image in Alaska last year resulting from a major oil spill caused by a lack of proper maintenance. The massive statewide PR campaign…
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Arnold Exposed
7-7-07 by Court Here’s my colleague Carmen Balber’s blow-by-blow account of today’s legislative hearing about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s role in slowing down his greenhouse gas regulators. The most juicy tidbit is the former executive director…
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Audit The Pollutenator
7-2-07 by Court The independent state auditor should investigate the reason for the dismissal of Air Resource Board Chairman Bob Sawyer after the resignation of Board executive director Cartherine Witherspoon today. The public…
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“Independence” Behind Firing
6-29-07 by Court The other shoe over Arnold Schwarzenegger’s firing of the Air Resources Board Chief Bob Sawyer dropped in the LA Times today. Sawyer says the entire issue is political independence and his…
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Nothing Satisfies ‘T Rex’
06-27-07 by dugan You’d think, after the Senate dropped from its energy bill anything that might give heartburn to Big Oil, that ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson would be grinning ear to ear. But…
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Rustbelt Ally Smacks Detroit
06-27-07 by dugan It’s one thing when the bicoastal literati with clean, soft hands slam the Detroit clique that opposes any mandatory improvements in auto efficiency standards. It’s completely another when a fellow, and…
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First Venezuela, Then….
06-25-07 by dugan ExxonMobil and Conoco Philllips are playing a high-stakes game of chicken with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez over his seizure of control in the companies’ Orinoco oilfields. The worst-case result could be the…
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A World of ‘If ‘On Energy Bill
06/22/07 by dugan Yes, at least the Senate’s energy bill vote yesterday wasn’t about opening US coastlines to unlimited drilling and tearing up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to get at maybe six months’…
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Big Oil’s ‘Buy Low, Sell High”
06-20-07 by dugan We’re seeing oil industry clout chip away at the vigor of the energy bill. Today Big Oil got to keep an accounting trick that saves it $4.3 billion a year in…
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‘Hot Fuel’ Fix Threatened
06-19-07 Help! E-mail or call your Senator now (see suggested message below), to keep alive a fix for the ‘hot fuel’ ripoff. Senators intent on hauling home pork, scoring points with contributors and getting…
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Will Chevron ‘Elect’ Your Mayor?
06-14-07 by dugan I was posting an item to a sister site, Dirtymoneywatch.org, and realized the topic deserved a mention here. Chevron, California’s own Big Oil, is among the wealthiest and most powerful special…
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Can Lawmakers Resist Big Oil?
06-14-07 by dugan You wouldn’t have known from the MSM in California that three modest proposals for curbing Big Oil’s consumer abuses passed their first key committee votes in the California Legislature this week….
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‘Aspirational Goals’=Delay, Deny
06-01-07 by dugan President Bush’s big media splash for his greenhouse gas speech Thursday is getting—belatedly—the thrashing it deserves. Check out columnist Dan Froomkin in Washingtonpost.com today: [Bush] put forth a new proposal on climate…