NEWS RELEASE June 21, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, (310) 392-0522, ext. 317;(310) 292-1902 (cell) BP Foundation’s $7.5 million Grant To Stanford Came After Favorable Research Article Santa Monica, CA — The flow of Big…
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Archive | Tag: environment
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Greasing The Wheels of Academe
06-20-07 by Simpson More Big Oil Money is greasing the wheels of academe making the nation’s big name universities little more than extension campuses of “Big Oil U.” Stanford University’s Program on Energy and Sustainable…
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Senate Energy Bill Redux
6-20-07 by Court What a difference a year makes. Last year oil companies were denying they had a hand in global warming and the big US Senate debate was whether to open up the…
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E85: Energy Bill Orphan
It’s hard to keep up with what’s in and what’s out of the energy bill at this point, but here’s a reminder, courtesy of Washington’s The Hill blog, that big bucks for biolfuels won’t…
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Big Oil vs. OilWatchdog
06-04-07 by dugan It’s the most exciting debate since… Paris Hilton’s Prison Sentence? Read me taking on Tom Tanton of the Exxon-funded Institute for Energy Research, in the LA Times’ Opinion section “Dust-Up" online. We…
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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…
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Will Exxon Investors Act?
05-30-07 by Simpson A shareholder resolution offered by a group of nuns from New Jersey would have required ExxonMobil to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from both its products and operations. Though it lost at the…
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Exxon Shareholders Want Action
NEWS RELEASE: May 30, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, (310) 392-0522, ext. 305, cell: 213 280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell: 310-874-9989 Global Warming Resolution Gains Surprising Support From Exxon Shareholders; 31% ‘Yes’ Vote Puts…
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The Nuns Vs. Exxon
Bloomberg has the pre-fight preview of the battle at today’s Exxon shareholder meeting between the $1 trillion in investor capital led by the Sisters of St Dominic and an Exxon board that does not want…
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Big Oil U Marches On
05-29-07 by Simpson Chevron announced another extension campus of “Big Oil U” today saying that it would enter a research deal with Texas A&M Agriculture and Engineering BioEnergy Alliance. They say they plan to accelerate…
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Snake Oil For Foreign Oil
5-29-07 by Court The New York Times outs the coal industry’s latest scheme to turn high gasoline prices into a giant subsidy for coal-to-liquid fuel. The industry argues our energy should be coming from Middle…
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Investor Revolt
5-26-07 by Court A group of powerful Exxon investors are leading a campaign to stop the reappointment of Public Issue Committee Chair Michael Boskin to the Exxon Board of Directors. Their complaint is that…
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Stanford shows some spine
05-22-07 by Simpson Stanford University, beneficiary of $100 million from ExxonMobil for alternate energy research, is finally standing up to the oil giant and voting in favor of an environmentally friendly shareholder proposal at the…