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Staying hooked on oil is expensive, too Gas pricing, Big Oil, and carbon pricing	Eric de Place	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, carbon tax, carbon trading, energy, oil (all these topics)

Credits Where Credits Are Due House Democrats make another push for renewable-energy credits		13 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 9:54 AM on 13 Feb 2008 Democrats in the House of Representatives have introduced legislation that would extend renewable-energy incentives, which were booted out of both the recent energy bill and the economic stimulus bill. The House legislation would provide tax breaks for investments in energy efficiency and solar, wind, and geothermal power, at an expected cost of $17.5 billion over 10 yea ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, legislation, news, politics, renewable energy, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

How Crude Midwest refineries source more crude from tar sands; emissions will rise		12 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 12:39 PM on 12 Feb 2008 Emissions from Midwest oil refineries are expected to jump by up to 40 percent in the next 10 years, thanks in large part to an industry-wide trend of sourcing crude oil from Canada's tar sands. The sands produce petroleum of such poor quality that it requires more energy -- and thus more pollution -- to process it into usable fuel. The trend flies in the face of national and regi ...
Topics: Big Oil, Canada, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, oil (all these topics)

Annals of irritants, part three Louisiana's Sen. Landrieu votes against party, for Big Oil	David Roberts	14 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: energy, politics, legislation, renewable energy, Big Oil (all these topics)

Fools on the Hill Greed versus green on the energy bill	Joseph Romm	10 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, climate, energy, legislation, oil, politics (all these topics)

What Juneau About That? Alaska oil-tax bribery scandal widens, may include members of Congress		12 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:42 PM on 12 Nov 2007 For the last year or so, ugly truths about Alaskan politics have been oozing into the limelight as state and federal officials unravel a scandal involving cash bribes, an oil tax, bowling scores, and sleeping pills. Yes, you heard us right: an oil tax! The founder of an oil-field services company pled guilty this spring to bribery and conspiracy; he's drug several stat ...
Topics: Alaska, Big Oil, energy, insanity, news, politics, state politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Somewhere, an Oil Baron Is Smiling Congress squabbles over how to spend oil fund ... that doesn't exist		08 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:22 PM on 08 Nov 2007 There are plenty of reasons we're glad we aren't members of Congress. Tops among them? Having to argue, with a straight face, about who's misspending money that doesn't exist. This year, four different bills have each proposed spending $6 billion that's expected to be collected from oil companies. The money would result from a fee assessed to compensate for o ...
Topics: Big Oil, Congress, news, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Shell Game Misleading Shell Oil ads removed from British media		07 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 5:51 PM on 07 Nov 2007 Shell Oil has removed ads from Britain's media after the country's Advertising Standards Authority criticized the company's claim to consumers that "we use our waste CO2 to grow flowers." A complaint from activist groups estimated that perhaps 0.325 percent of Shell's emission of poor, misunderstood CO2 emissions are used to grow flowers. sources:� Associated Press, Reuters < Previous \| ...
Topics: Big Oil, climate, dumbassery , greenhouse-gas emissions, news (all these topics)

Brine of the Times Louisiana will crack down on oil industry waste-disposal practices		05 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:56 AM on 05 Nov 2007 Oil companies accustomed to a hodgepodge of regulation will soon see stricter oversight from a new initiative in Louisiana, which will pool the resources of 15 state and federal offices to crack down on Big Oil's waste-disposal practices. The program will train some 100 field officers to identify oil and brine-water spills in the Gulf of Mexico and collect evidence potentially ...
Topics: Big Oil, Louisiana, news, politics, regulation, state politics (all these topics)

Loophole in the Ground Activists ask Congress to close regulatory loopholes for oil and gas companies		01 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 5:17 PM on 01 Nov 2007 At a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing yesterday -- Wait! It's not as boring as it sounds! -- scientists and conservationists asked Congress to plug legislative loopholes that exempt oil and gas companies from some regulatory oversight. Particularly of interest to green and health advocates are exemptions from regulation of a natural-gas ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, regulation (all these topics)

It's a Fine Day BP settles three federal investigations		26 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 3:14 PM on 26 Oct 2007 Oil giant BP settled three federal investigations yesterday. Drumroll please ... In regards to the 2005 Texas refinery explosion that killed 15 workers, BP will admit it is Beyond Guilty to felony charges of violating the Clean Air Act and not enforcing safety standards, and will pay a $50 million fine. In regards to last year's snafu with leaky oil pipelines in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, the company will plead g ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, litigation, news, politics (all these topics)

Winding Up British government approves world's largest offshore wind farm		05 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:23 PM on 05 Oct 2007 Plans for the world's largest offshore wind farm have been approved by the British government. The project, led by Shell and European energy company Eon, would place up to 341 turbines over 90 square miles off the coast of Kent. While it's not a done deal, presumably the biggest regulatory hurdles have been overcome; if all goes well, the farm could supply one-quarter of London's power by ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, news, renewable energy, United Kingdom, wind power (all these topics)

Curses, Oiled Again Chevron ad says renewables are great, oil is greater		28 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 12:14 PM on 28 Sep 2007 A new TV commercial on energy and the environment debuts this weekend. The swooping camera shots of glaciers and freeways will be familiar, but the voice-over may not: "Our lives demand oil." Yes, the 2.5-minute spot, airing in eight languages around the globe, is an effort by Chevron to urge humanity to seek out alternative energy -- while continuing to cling to fossil fuels. Aim ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, energy, greenwashing, news, TV (all these topics)

You Offset 550,000 Tons, What Do You Get? Oil company Conoco agrees to offset carbon emissions from refinery project		12 Sep 2007	News
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 ...
Topics: Big Oil, California, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Some Systems Go Big Oil gets OK from Australian state for multi-billion-dollar LNG project		07 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 9:18 AM on 07 Sep 2007 A major energy venture on Western Australia's Barrow Island is one step closer to reality after getting a green light from state environmental officials. Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell propose the development of a massive liquefied natural gas field expected to generate 10 million metric tons per year (which, in non-metric terms, is "a hell of a lot") ...
Topics: Australia, Big Oil, energy, natural gas, news (all these topics)

Consider Using the N-Word Less Voluntary actions didn't get us civil rights, and they won't fix the climate	Mike Tidwell	04 Sep 2007	Grist Feature
Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Photo: Library of Congress Strange but true: Energy-efficient light bulbs and hybrid cars are hurting our nation's budding efforts to fight global warming. More precisely, every time an activist or politician hectors the public to voluntarily reach for a new bulb or spend extra on a Prius, ExxonMobil heaves ...
Topics: Big Oil, climate, climate change mitigation, green living (all these topics)

Emission Accomplished Indiana regulators give BP a pass on meeting federal soot regulations		29 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Emission Accomplished Indiana regulators give BP a pass on meeting federal soot regulations Last week, oil company BP backed off of a plan to dump lots more ammonia and sludge into Lake Michigan; this week, Indiana regulators granted the same refinery an exemption to a federal rule that would have required it to halve its soot emissions. Because we certainly wouldn't want it polluting too litt ...
Topics: air pollution, Big Oil, Indiana, news, politics, regulation (all these topics)

The Best Defense Is a Good ... Marsh Two years after Katrina, New Orleans is still succumbing to water	Wayne Curtis	29 Aug 2007	Dispatches
is a freelance writer who's written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar, Preservation, and American Heritage, and is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. He recently traded Maine winters for New Orleans summers. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Wednesday, 29 Aug 2007 NEW ORLEANS, La. Katrina left these boats high and dry -- b ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Oil, Dispatches, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Refine! Be That Way! EPA rejects stricter emissions standards for U.S. refineries		24 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Refine! Be That Way! EPA rejects stricter emissions standards for U.S. refineries Following a review of the refinery pollution rules it issued in 1995, the U.S. EPA has decided not to improve the 12-year-old rules because the analysis found that "the risks to human health and the environment are low enough that no further controls are warranted." As the EPA sees it, they could do two things: nothing, or mayb ...
Topics: air pollution, Big Oil, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Lower the Pollution and Back Away Slowly BP says it will back off from releasing more Lake Michigan pollution		24 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Lower the Pollution and Back Away Slowly BP says it will back off from releasing more Lake Michigan pollution In what's being billed as a victory for environmentalists, oil company BP has said it will back off from dumping more pollution into Lake Michigan. The company had just weeks ago received permission from Indiana state authorities to increase the amount of sludge particles and ammonia it could rel ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, Indiana, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Big Oil's biggest toadies And the 'Climate Balls of Steel' award goes to ...	Glenn Hurowitz	22 Aug 2007	Gristmill

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

Um, If It's Not Too Much Trouble? EPA suggests wishy-washy compromise in Indiana BP permit mess		15 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Um, If It's Not Too Much Trouble? EPA suggests wishy-washy compromise in Indiana BP permit mess Officials from the U.S. EPA have stepped in to quell the furor over a controversial permit the state of Indiana granted to a BP refinery. The permit will allow BP to discharge more ammonia and sludge into Lake Michigan -- at legal limits, but increased over previous amounts. Residents and politicians in Indiana, Illinois, M ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, Indiana, news, oil (all these topics)

Oopsy Daisy Alaskan study says 2 million gallons of oil, seawater spilled over 10 years		13 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Oopsy Daisy Alaskan study says 2 million gallons of oil, seawater spilled over 10 years Did you hear about the 2-million-gallon spill in the Alaskan tundra? No, you didn't, because it happened slowly, from different sources, over the course of 10 years. A study by the state's Department of Environmental Conservation says spills on the North Slope between 1995 and 2005 included a 994,40 ...
Topics: Alaska, Big Oil, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

That Sounds Perhaps Not So Clean In need of a new solvent, dry cleaners turn to petroleum		10 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
That Sounds Perhaps Not So Clean In need of a new solvent, dry cleaners turn to petroleum As dry cleaners stop using the solvent perchloroethylene, a suspected carcinogen that's being phased out in California, New York, Toronto, and elsewhere, some are choosing a surprising replacement: petroleum-based solvents. Um ... what? Turns out petroleum was the solvent of choice in the industry's early years, un ...
Topics: Big Oil, fashion, greenwashing, health, news, oil (all these topics)

Death Wish Why the Gulf dead zone won't go away any time soon	Wayne Curtis	07 Aug 2007	Dispatches
is a freelance writer who's written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar, Preservation, and American Heritage, and is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. He recently traded Maine winters for New Orleans summers. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Tuesday, 07 Aug 2007 NEW ORLEANS, La. It's summertime in New Orleans. Time slows. Backyard gardens demand to be weeded near ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Oil, Dispatches, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

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