11-04-09 by dugan Carbon trading. Oh, yawn. Too weird and complicated. MEGO. Leave me alone. But wait a minute: A new website, Carbon Watch, could change your mind about keeping up with cap and…
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This ‘carbon trading’ thingie
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Exxon: Litigate ’til Hell freezes
10-19-09 by dugan It’s good news that ExxonMobil lost a big court case today in New York, where a judge ordered it to pay $105 million for contamination of drinking water with a now-banned…
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Cracks in the Armor of Denial
09-23-09 by dugan Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s departure from the national Chamber of Commerce is a strong message, one that more middle-of-the-road corporations ought to hear. The Chamber, claiming to represent all of…
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Celebrate Oil Day!
Here’s something even more fun than the oil industry’s mass recruitment of employees to stage industry-funded "citizen protests" against U.S. caps on climate-destroying oil emissions. The Ayn Rand Institute asks us all to celebrate…
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Exxon: Dead birds’ big message
08-14-08 by dugan It doesn’t sound like a lot–Exxon pleads guilty in federal court to killing 85 birds over 5 years, pays $600,000 in fines and fees. It’s a drop in the bucket for…
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How to buy a climate policy
California has a forward-looking climate policy, but everything depends on how it’s implemented. And buying the face time band private access needed to make things better for industry just gets easier: the state Chamber…
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Coal: Save me, kill the planet
7-7-09 by dugan The big energy bill produced by the House of Representatives is jammed with billions of dollars of concessions to the U.S. coal industry, pinned to the promise that coal-burning industries will,…
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How oil bucks lubed climate bill
7-2-09 by dugan Here’s a great explanation, copublished by Greenwire and the New York Times online, of how the oil and energy industries steadily weakened the big climate change bill in Congress, and why…
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Pickens is back for your bucks
06-30-09 by dugan I choked on my black-bean enchilada when an e-mail alert popped up about a new bill in the Senate. Oklahoma oil and natural gas billionaire T. Boone Pickens, who failed miserably last…
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Chevron’s $27-billion liability sticks. Again.
06-30-09 by dugan Chevron keeps throwing money at the lawsuit by Ecuadoran peasants whose land and water were spoiled by oil drilling’s toxic leftovers. The oil giant wants the suit to go away, or at…
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A one-cheer climate victory
6-26-09 by dugan I’m certainly not a big fan of the House energy and climate bill that received a fake debate and a mini-filibuster before passing 219-212 in the House of Representatives today. By fake,…
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‘Heavy oil’ = Heavy pollution
06-17-09 by dugan Chevron’s evasions about its "upgrade" of a Northern California refinery to process dirtier, heavier oil got in well-deserved trouble with a state judge recently, thanks to unrelenting pressure from people who live…
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Save the Arctic, or drill it?
06-15-09 by dugan What if man-made clouds could save the melting Arctic icepack? What if global warming also made it easier to drill for oil and natural gas in the most frozen parts of the…