Someone is playing a dirty trick (see full text below) regarding the giant liquefied natural gas terminal proposed offshore of Malibu and Oxnard on the California coast. This biased poll, as the Callifornia Coastal Protection…
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Alt-Fuels Restricted Everywhere
Check out this detailed Wall Street Journal follow-up to OilWatchdog’s investigation of Chevron’s resistance to renewable fuels at their gas stations. It also tells how companies other than Chevron effectively bar the sale of high-ethanol…
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Big Oil’s European Vacation
Oil industry and power company executives have begun a European jaunt in the company of California’s top energy policy officials. It’s billed as a “policy study” on how Europe implements greenhouse gas restrictions. But giving…
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Hillary Channels Prop 87
OilWatchdog reader "Alternative Energy Evangelist" points out this You Tube video of Hillary Clinton proposing an alternative energy fund, paid for out of ever-rising oil company profits. Sounds exactly like Proposition 87, which narrowly lost…
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Chevron Talks Green, Yet Prevents Retailers From Selling Renewable Fuels
NEWS RELEASE:March 29, 2007 Contact: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 ext. 305, cell: 213-280-0175; Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell: 310-874-9989; Tim Hamilton, 360-495-4941 Letter to Chevron CEO Marks Launch of New Web Site, www.OilWatchdog.org Santa Monica, CA…
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Chevron Kills Green Fuels
Oil Watchdog’s parent organization today sent a letter to Chevron CEO David O’Reilly that accused the company of blocking gas stations from selling renewable motor fuels, even as it claims new green credibility. As crude…
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Shame Totem For Exxon
Alaska carver Mike Webber has created a totem to memorialize how ExxonMobil has yet to pay its debt to Alaskans on the 18th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill. Webber’s shame totem pole, carved from…
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State Regulators’ Favors to Oil
A state auditor’s investigation reports that a regulator and his supervisor in the California Department of Conservation appeared to be fast-tracking drilling or other permits to oil companies while the employees concealed their investments in…
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Valdez’s Sister Still Afloat
Exxon still has not paid the $2.5 billion in punitive damages it owes 30,000 Alaskans from the Valdez spill. Exxpose Exxon has now uncovered that the world’s richest corporation is hardly showing remorse in its…
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Big Oil Buys Berkeley
Oil giant BP’s proposed research deal with UC Berkeley is threatening to push academic integrity aside in favor of profits, writes author Jennifer Washburn in the Los Angeles Times. "This is shameful " says Washburn,…
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Stanford Claims Independence In ExxonMobil Deal, But Pact Details Show Otherwise;
NEWS RELEASE: March 26, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, 310-392-0522, ext. 317, or 310-292-1902 (cell) Key part of research agreement remains secret Santa Monica, CA — Stanford University President John Hennessy was asked today by…
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Ecuador Vs. Chevron
The president of Ecuador says he will join with residents of the Amazon rain forest in holding Chevron accountable for dumping billions of gallons of oily waste in the jungle over three decades. A lawsuit…
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ConocoPhillips Tries To Buy Into “Big Oil U” In Greenwash Campaign
NEWS RELEASE: March 20, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, 310-392-0522 ext. 317, cell: 310-292-1902, or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell: 310-874-9989 Disturbing trend must be stopped to preserve academic integrity at U.S. colleges, consumer advocates…