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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Don’t Turn Berkeley Into “UCBP”
NEWS RELEASE: April 19, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, (310)-392-0522, ext. 317, or cell: (310)-292-1902, or Jamie Court, (310)-392-0522, ext. 327 Don’t Let Big Oil Turn Cal Berkeley Into "UCBP," Consumers and Professor Warn Berkeley,…
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Berkeley Deal w/BP Not “Open”;
NEWS RELEASE: April 12, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, (310) 392-0522, ext. 317, or cell: (310) 292-1902 Berkeley Chancellor Mischaracterized Dealings With BP As "Open"; Key proposal documents were withheld from public view until revealed…
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Whose Is Biggest?
04/11/07 by dugan It’s a strange world when yearly CEO pay of $18.4 million looks humble. That’s what Exxon reports paying CEO Rex Tillerson in a filing today. Compared to the $460 million awarded to…
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Congress: CA Gas Supply Plan?
NEWS RELEASE: April 10, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 ext. 305, cell: 213-280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell: 310-874-9989 Congress Presses Refiners on California’s Gasoline Price Spike, Supply Restrictions; Rep. Kucinich Requests Oil Companies’…
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Top Analyst: West Coast Is Toast
NEWS RELEASE: April 9, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 ext. 305, cell: 213 280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell: 310-874-9989 Low Supply Makes the West a "Compromised Market for the Rest of This Decade,"…
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Who’s To Blame For Gas Prices?
04-09-07 by Court The media debate about who is to blame for rising gasoline prices is on. Last week perennial pundit George Will took the oil industry’s line in his syndicated column that gasoline prices…
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I could fill up 10 million times with Oxy CEO’s salary
It was the mathematical symmetry of the number that got to me. It costs me about $46 to fill up my Honda at a California gas station these days ($3.28 for unleaded according to AAA). …
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Civil Action Karma
4-6-07 by Court Seven years ago, I flew back to Chicago to issue a report on how big gasoline price spikes were a result of artificial manipulation of the gasoline supply by oil companies. Tim…
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Driver Budgets Burn At Pump
Politicians are fiddling while motorists burn through their budgets. The federal government’s weekly gasoline report shows national prices up another dime last week, to $2.671 for regular and California at $3.228, nearly 56 cents above…