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Colbert on gas prices and oil profits	David Roberts	09 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, energy, funnies, green living, messaging, oil, TV (all these topics)

Straight as a circle Big Oil's crooked talk on profits	Joseph Romm	08 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, business, energy, John McCain, lying liars, oil (all these topics)

MTBE Cool Big Oil will shell out for groundwater cleanup		08 May 2008	News
Posted at 8:07 AM on 08 May 2008 Some of the nation's largest oil companies will over the next 30 years have to pay to clean up groundwater befouled with gasoline additive MTBE. In settling a suit brought by 153 public water providers in 17 states, a dozen companies -- including BP, Shell, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron -- will also have to pay a total $423 million cash. If approved, the settlement will be "a step in the direction of ma ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, litigation, news, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Do as the Bill Says, Not as It Does Senators both GOP and Dem introduce destined-to-fail legislation		07 May 2008	News
Posted at 2:54 PM on 07 May 2008 Senate Democrats are trying once again to yank $17 billion in tax breaks away from oil companies that are enjoying booming profits. The Consumer-First Energy Act, introduced in the Senate on Wednesday, would also put a 25 percent tax on oil companies that don't invest in renewable energy. Bill cosponsor Harry Reid (D-Nev.) sums up, "Big Oil is making money h ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, legislation, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

When $10.9 billion is just not enough ExxonMobil's profits huge; shares fall anyway	Josh Dorner	02 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Arctic Refuge, Big Oil, business, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

OPEC chief joins $200 oil chorus Bush, Big Oil offer more of the same	Josh Dorner	29 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Arctic Refuge, Big Oil, energy, George Bush, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Big Oil: 'Together, We Can' ignore global warming American Petroleum Institute ad promotes climate catastrophe	Brad Johnson	26 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: advertising, Big Oil, energy, messaging, natural gas, oil, shenanigans (all these topics)

If loving the earth isn't enough, hating Chevron will do Chevron runs ad attacking Goldman Prize winner	Adam Browning	15 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, grassroots activism, heroes, jackassery, litigation, oil (all these topics)

Cries on the Prize Chevron throws hissy fit that anti-Chevron activists received award		15 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:48 AM on 15 Apr 2008 Chevron is throwing a hissy fit over the Goldman Environmental Prize awarded to two Ecuadorian activists who want the oil company to clean up pollution in the Amazon rain forest. Texaco, which was acquired by Chevron in 2001, dumped 18.5 billion gallons of petrochemical waste in the Amazon between 1972 and 1992. Lawyer Pablo Fajardo and community organizer Luis Yanza won the G ...
Topics: Amazon, Big Oil, Ecuador, energy, grassroots activism, heroes, litigation, news, oil, rainforests, water pollution (all these topics)

BP-powered no more	David Roberts	09 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, business, energy, gossip, oil (all these topics)

Green TNR, brought to you by BP	David Roberts	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: advertising, Big Oil, business, energy, oil (all these topics)

Exec Men: The Stand Oil execs questioned on high oil and gasoline prices		02 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 7:15 AM on 02 Apr 2008 Executives from five huge oil companies were questioned by members of Congress Tuesday amid frustration over high oil and gasoline prices. Big-wigs from BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell did their best to eschew blame for high prices while explaining that they still need billions of dollars in subsidies. They also said increasing taxes on dirty energy to fund re ...
Topics: Big Oil, Congress, news, United States (all these topics)

Obama and oil companies The latest primary dispute: Does Obama take oil money?	David Roberts	30 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Barack Obama, Big Oil, Hillary Clinton, oil, politics, presidential race 08, shenanigans (all these topics)

Mood in the hood	Sir Oolius	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, business, energy, oil, quotables (all these topics)

Passover as if the earth matters A call to action: Street Speakout Seders	Guest author	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Auto, Big Oil, business, grassroots activism, green living, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

ECO:nomics: More evidence of Exxon's evil genius	David Roberts	20 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, business (all these topics)

Crude oil at $130 this year? And $150 next year? Rising cost of oil pushes value of the dollar down	Joseph Romm	09 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: investing, economy, energy, business, Big Oil, oil (all these topics)

Bringing a knife to a gunfight What drives climate change denial?	Adam Stein	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, business, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

What's wrong with the WCI? The Western Climate Initiative's first proposal ducks biggest climate problem	Eric de Place	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, business, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, legislation, Oregon, Washington (all these topics)

How high must oil go before we end subsidies? Bush's refusal to consider clean technologies could be repeated by McCain	Joseph Romm	06 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, business, energy, George Bush, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Dismal science Do Big Oil and Big Tobacco share a similar smokescreen?	Miles Grant	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, climate science, climate change skepticism, climate, energy (all these topics)

The Brave One Clinton talks up clean energy at Houston energy summit		29 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 1:36 PM on 29 Feb 2008 The Greater Houston Partnership held an energy forum Thursday to which all of the presidential candidates were invited and only one showed up: Hillary Clinton. Surrounded by folks from the energy industry, days before the crucial Texas primary, Clinton elected not to tell Big Oil what it wanted to hear. "I do not believe that now is the time when subsidies for the oil companies are necessa ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, Hillary Clinton, news, politics, presidential race 08, Texas (all these topics)

Good Luck, Little Buddy Renewable-energy bill passes House, likely to be short-lived		27 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 2:47 PM on 27 Feb 2008 By a vote of 236-182, the House of Representatives has approved legislation that would boost renewable-energy tax incentives by repealing $18 billion in tax breaks currently enjoyed by oil and gas companies. Take a moment to enjoy that small victory, because the bill faces steep odds in the Senate, and President Bush has promised to veto it. source:� Dow Jones < Previous \| Ne ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, legislation, news, politics, renewable energy, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Movers and Fist-Shakers Alaskan village sues Big Fossil Fuel over link to climate change		27 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 10:35 AM on 27 Feb 2008 The tiny village of Kivalina, built on a barrier reef in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against 24 oil, coal, and power companies, alleging that Big Fossil Fuel's greenhouse-gas emissions are contributing to the climate-change-caused coastal erosion that threatens the village's very existence. Kivalina says that the companies should pay for its relocation. The ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Big Oil, climate, climate change impacts, coal, fossil fuels, litigation, news (all these topics)

The Damages Done Exxon will try to convince Supreme Court it's paid enough for oil spill		26 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 9:58 AM on 26 Feb 2008 On Wednesday, Exxon Mobil Corp. will try to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that it should not have to pay $2.5 billion in punitive damages to Alaskan folk affected by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Exxon, which earlier this month posted an annual profit of $40.6 billion, will argue that the $3.4 billion or so that it's paid in cleanup costs and other fines should totally ...
Topics: Alaska, Big Oil, energy, news, oil, water pollution (all these topics)

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