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The wee island nation of Fiji managed Wednesday to back down a California-owned company and extract a fee of 8 US cents per liter on Fiji Water. The state of California can’t even manage to back down Big Oil and charge a few cents a gallon on oil pumped out of its public lands. Jerry Brown, are you listening?
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06-23-10 by dugan The latest round of state political contribution reports show that Chevron has given another $250,000 to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s huge political slush fund, the "California Dream Team." That makes a…
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3-5-10 by dugan I guess its’s fitting that it took a New York newspaper to inform Californians that a couple of giant Texas oil refining companies are bankrolling a ballot initiative to kill the…
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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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06-02-09 by dugan Chevron is spending a little now to save a lot later, at the expense of California children’s health, state parks, poor people, you name it. The oil giant just threw another $250,000…
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05-27-09 by dugan Is Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s vanity-green hydrogen fuel project worth the loss of health insurance for thousands of California children? Ah, I didn’t think so, either. Yet Schwarzenegger is out today touting his…
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Check out this great video that draws a straight line between Chevron’s lavish contributions to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the dismal ballot choices for plugging the awful state budget hole. We don’t have any position…
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02-11-09 by dugan When the gruesome California state budget struggle finally ends, Californians will pay: higher sales taxes, vehicle fees, gasoline taxes and income taxes, acccording to a Sacramento Bee story with the ring of…
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11-6-08 by dugan I’ve been out of town for several days, and the news today makes me wonder if the governor of California had a near-religious epiphany while I was gone. Arnold Schwarzenegger just embraced…
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8-19-08 by M.Reback Arnold’s big idea: Use less gas It seems the extent of Governor Schwarzenegger’s solution for Californians to help combat sky-high gas prices is… promoting more efficient use of gasoline. Gee thanks for…
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5-16-08 by simpson Chevron Corp. just gave $100,000 to Gov. Schwarzenegger’s Dream Team Committee making the oil giant the 14th biggest contributor to Arnold since 2003. Chevron has given his various committees a total of…
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4-09-08 by dugan So, did the White House "influence" the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision last December to kill states’ plans to regulate greenhouse emissions from tailpipes? Some of us don’t doubt it for…
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3-19-08 by dugan The Oakland-adjacent and working class city of Richmond, Calif., is on the verge of allowing Chevron to proceed with a huge, contentious "upgrade" of its refinery there so it can…
