NEWS RELEASE October 23, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, ext. 305, or cell, 213-280-0175, or Tim Hamilton, 360-495-4941 BP Profit Drop Just a Pause in Windfall Profits, Says Consumer Group; Company Warned Not to Skimp…
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BP Says ‘Breathe This’
10-22-07 by dugan Either no one at BP’s big Carson, CA refinery has seen a TV for two days or its management just doesn’t give a damn about what the neighbors breathe. With Southern…
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Big Oil Gives $500K+ to Giuliani
NEWS RELEASE October 19, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 x305 Giuliani Leaps Past $500,000 Mark in Big Oil Contributions; All Presidential Candidates Should Return Oil Industry’s "Dirty Money," Says Watchdog Group Santa Monica, CA —…
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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 Fight to Thwart UC-BP
10-04-07 by simpson I supplied the T-shirts and The Student Campaign to Stop BP at Berkeley offered up a demonstration to drive home the potential damage of Big Oil U on one of the…
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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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Human Energy?
9-30-07 by Court Chevron’s latest advertising campaign, which gives the company the tagline "Human Energy," is a classic study in how large rogue corporations try to show themselves as having a soul and human…
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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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Fall semester delayed at “UC BP”
08-30-07 by simpson Students have returned to college campuses across the country, but there apparently is a delay in the fall semester for Big Oil U’s largest extension campus at the University of California at…
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BP Got The Message
08-24-07 by simpson Bumbling Petroleum – BP – finally listened to the expressions of outrage about its plans to increase pollution pumped into Lake Michigan after it completes a $3.8 billion refurbishing of its Whiting,…
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Exxon’s Good Supply of Lawyers
08-23-07 by dugan ExxonMobil is quick to raise gasoline prices whenever "supplies are short." But its ability to go slow is phenomenal when it comes to big lawsuits. Exxon’s army of lawyers has spent more…