NEWS RELEASE: May 16, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, (310) 392-0522, ext. 317, or cell: (310) 292-1902, or Jamie Court, ext. 327 Consumer Group Calls On Regents to Block "UCBP"; Safeguards Essential To Maintain Academic…
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Duke Latest To Join big Oil U
By Simpson05-09-07 Duke University is the latest institution to join Big Oil U with a pledge of $1 million from ConocoPhillip’s for the school’s Climate Change Policy Partnership (CCPP). The university describes the CCPP as…
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UCB Students Plan Demonstration
By Simpson05-07-07 Students at UC Berkeley who don’t want the venerable institution transformed into UCBP as a result of a $500 million deal with the oil giant, plan a demonstration on Tuesday. Organizers say they…
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Let This Be A Lesson
By Simpson 05-04-07 Lord John Browne, widely perceived as a business titan, crashed and burned this week resigning as BP chief executive amidst messy, tabloid headlines exposing his gay lifestyle. But as Businessweek columnist Jeffrey…
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Attack Of The Chevron Attorneys
5-2-07 by Court Chevron’s attorneys are at it again, this time breathing down the necks of editors at the San Francisco Chronicle over my oped last week, "Is Chevron Going Green?" I got the call…
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Chicken Biodiesel May Not Fly
By Simpson05-01-07 ConocoPhillips and Tyson Foods announced a green sounding deal to make biodiesel fuel from leftover chicken parts, but Congressional Democrats are skeptical of a tax break the plan rests upon. According to the…
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Will profs learn from students?
4-26-07 by Simpson UC Berkeley’s faculty members could learn something from their students. Unlike the faculty senate’s toothless compromise resolution about the proposed $500 million deal with oil giant BP that could transform the campus…
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Exxon Taints Stanford Research
NEWS RELEASE April 26, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, (310) 392-0522 ext. 317 or cell: (310) 292-1902, or Jamie Court, (310) 392-0522, ext. 327 Credibility of New Stanford University Energy Research Tainted by ExxonMobil Ties…
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Chevron v. Amazon & Environment
4-25-07 by Court Chevron shareholders meeting today in San Ramon will hear from Amazon villagers about the company’s failure to settle up for the worst oil related disaster in the world. Subsidiary Texaco dumped…
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Shell-raiser Gets Goldman Prize
4-24-07 by Court Irish farmer William Corduff is in California to claim his Goldman prize. Corduff stopped Shell Oil from building a high pressure pipeline to connect proposed off-shore gas production with a refinery six…
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BP Losses Offset By West Profits
NEWS RELEASE April 24, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, (310) 392-0522 ext. 305, cell: (213) 280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327 ‘Bumbling Petroleum’ (BP) Manages to Halt Record Profit Runs; Losses Elsewhere Offset by High Gasoline…
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Deal pushed at ‘warp speed’
Simpson4-23-2007 Why has UC Berkeley’s administration so vigorously pushed the $500 million deal with BP to fund a research institute? Prof. Anne Wagner offered an explanation to her colleagues last week. She is one of…
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Dumping the Guzzler
04-21-07 by dugan Happy Earth Day, OilWatchdoggers. To celebrate, the hubby and I dumped the 13-year-old guzzler and bought a Prius. OK, we’re way behind blogger Simpson, who’s been driving a sleeker, more efficient…