4-15-08 by dugan Chevron’s world headquarters in San Ramon, Calif., is less than 40 miles from San Francisco’s stately opera house. So if bad thoughts could kill, last night’s audience for the prestigious…
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Archive | Tag: environment
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“Get a Grip” View on Ethanol
3-24-08 by dugan Leave it to the Canadians to stay calm. Consider Frank Dottori, founder and former CEO of a multibillion-dollar forest products company. Nowadays he’s heading a project to turn forest and…
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Chevron’s Goliath Strategy
3-19-08 by dugan The Oakland-adjacent and working class city of Richmond, Calif., is on the verge of allowing Chevron to proceed with a huge, contentious "upgrade" of its refinery there so it can…
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Defending Cheaper, Cleaner
3-19-08 by dugan There’s no single path to an affordable and clean energy future, and that’s a good thing. After all, the monoculture of petroleum dependence has brought us $4.00 a gallon gasoline,…
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Deadly Plug-In Hybrids!
3-14-08 by dugan I’m happy to admit that Earth would be better off if we all hiked or biked to work, got our power from solar panels on the roof, wore parkas indoors rather…
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Congressional Kabuki
2-27-08 by dugan Could oil companies that collectively made $123 billion last year afford to give up $1.8 billion a year (less than 1.5% of annual profit) from the tax subsidies that you and…
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What? Politics at the EPA?
2-26-08 by dugan Here’s a (not) shocking development. Newly released documents show that the oil buddies at the White House may have interfered in the Environmental Protection Agency’s rejection of California’s new tailpipe…
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Exxon, the Worldwide Scrooge
2-07-08 by dugan You’d think that a company making nearly $41 billion in yearly profit in 2007 would be profligate in its charitable giving. We don’t know yet what Exxon Mobil’s 2007 total was,…
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Clean-Air Hand-Clap for Safeway
12-18-08 by dugan We ought to be past the time when fueling a truck fleet on a biodiesel blend that’s good for any diesel engine merits a back-slapping news conference. But it’s still worth…
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EPA “Disappears” the Evidence?
12-21-07 by dugan Today’s award for worst job in the world goes to EPA spokeswoman Jennifer Wood. She’s saying that an EPA staff Powerpoint presentation defending California’s right to regulate auto emissions can’t be…
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Sue their Brains Out!
12-19-07 by dugan The ink wasn’t dry on President Bush’s energy bill signature today when the White House denied California’s waiver request to enforce its greenhouse emissions law. Obviously this was a signed-and-sealed plan….
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Energy Bill: Crumbs or Loaves?
12-19-07 by dugan Looking at the energy bill, I’d say Congress is settling for crumbs and trying to count them as loaves–at least until 2009 and TEOB, "The End of Bush." That leaves a…
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What Was DiFi Thinking?
12-13-07 by dugan The energy bill passed the Senate tonight, composed of not much more than the 35 mpg auto standard and some pork for biofuels. But as far as OilWatchdog can tell, a…