NEWS RELEASE August 23, 2007 CONTACT: Jamie Court, (310) 392-0522 ext. 327, or Judy Dugan, ext. 305 Assembly Speaker’s Promised Action to Curb Gasoline Price Spikes Fails as Chevron Money Flows, Says Letter; Group Asks…
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Chevron ‘Didn’t Just Dial 911’
08-16-07 by dugan Chevron’s chief tactic against foreign environmental and human rights lawsuits is scorched-earth denial, but it lately it hasn’t been working. A federal judge in San Francisco ruled Tuesday that Nigerian…
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Who’s Afraid of Biofuels?
08-14-07 by dugan The clearest statement I’ve seen about the motives of opponents of innovative biofuels–from oil interests to agro-industry–comes from a speech last Friday by Loren Beard, Chrysler’s senior manager for energy planning and…
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Invest Wisely, Don’t Pollute
08-01-07 by simpson BP – Bumbling Petroleum – is deservedly under fire for plans to dump more toxic ammonia and mercury into Lake Michigan and spew more pollutants into the air as part of a…
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Just Can’t Spend It All
07-31-07 by dugan "With the world thirsty for more oil and cleaner fuels, Exxon Mobil and other oil firms have been spending billions to buy back their shares." A great sentence, but not my…
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Sting Of Toxic Tones
If you watched the primetime broadcast of the Live Earth concerts last Saturday night, you may have caught the segment where Sting and his wife Trudie Styler told the 2 billion plus in the world-wide…
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After Live Earth
7-08-07 by Court The global concerts on 7-7-07 designed to raise consciousness about global climate change already have their own extensive Wikipedia entry and the question is what’s next? In the last twelve…
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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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Soon, the Monolith
07-5-07 by dugan Someone recently asked me why Shell sold its mega-profitable Southern California refinery to the refining company Tesoro. Umm, I dunno, was my brilliant reply. Today, there’s a blazingly obvious answer, but…
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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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NY Judge KOs Chevron
6-28-07 by Court Chevron failed to convince a US District Court judge in New York that the case against the company for contaminating the Amazon should be sujbect to arbitration and removed from Ecuador’s justice…
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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’…