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You Offset 550,000 Tons, What Do You Get?
Oil company Conoco agrees to offset carbon emissions from refinery project |
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12 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 6:00 AM on 12 Sep 2007 California has reached a settlement with oil giant ConocoPhillips that requires the company to spend $10 million to offset greenhouse-gas emissions from a proposed refinery expansion in the state's East Bay area. As part of the deal, the company will spend $7 million on as-yet-unspecified environmental projects in the San Francisco Bay Area as wel ... |
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| Topics: Big Oil, California, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics) |
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