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Dream a Little Ream of Me House passes ambitious energy bill, Bush threatens veto		06 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Dream a Little Ream of Me House passes ambitious energy bill, Bush threatens veto The first national renewable-energy standard. Revoked oil-industry tax breaks that will help pay for clean energy. Funding for green job creation. A carbon-neutral federal government. What's all this, the deluded longings of some kooky environmentalist? Nope, it's a few of the features of the ...
Topics: Big Oil, Congress, energy, energy efficiency, news, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Spaghetti Midwestern Citizens, politicians, EPA face off over BP refinery discharges		01 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Spaghetti Midwestern Citizens, politicians, EPA face off over BP refinery discharges Good old-fashioned fury continues to build over Indiana's decision to grant oil giant BP permission to increase discharges of ammonia and sludge into Lake Michigan. A group of eight shoreline mayors has formed a task force to fight the plan. Tens of thousands of residents have signed petiti ...
Topics: Big Oil, Chicago, grassroots activism, insanity, news, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Use the Task Force, Dick Members of mysterious energy task force finally revealed		19 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Use the Task Force, Dick Members of mysterious energy task force finally revealed You might want to sit down for this: the Bush administration's national energy policy was heavily influenced by Big Industry. Shocking, we know. In 2001, a task force headed by Vice President Dick Cheney met with various entities to discuss energy policy; since then, the administration has battled to keep from sayi ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, news, politics, shenanigans, White House (all these topics)

Pretty Please, With Cuomo On Top New York state sues ExxonMobil over oil spill foot-dragging		18 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Pretty Please, With Cuomo On Top New York state sues ExxonMobil over oil spill foot-dragging A shot has been fired in the quiet oil-spill battle in Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Greenpoint neighborhood: the state has sued ExxonMobil to force the cleanup of the estimated 8 million gallons of oil and petroleum byproducts still underground after a 1950 explosion. The spill, larger than the Exxon Valdez deb ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, litigation, New York, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Beyond Pathetic BP allowed to increase waste discharges into Lake Michigan		17 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Beyond Pathetic BP allowed to increase waste discharges into Lake Michigan The ugly (and imaginary) conflict between environment and economy has reared its head in Indiana, where state and federal regulators granted exemptions that will allow oil giant BP to discharge more waste from a refinery straight into Lake Michigan. You may recall that BP is moving "Beyond Petroleum." Bu ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, Indiana, insanity, news, oil, water pollution (all these topics)

Replacing Oil With, Uh, More Oil National Petroleum Council pictures life after conventional crude		17 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Replacing Oil With, Uh, More Oil National Petroleum Council pictures life after conventional crude There's a new voice in the crowd shrieking about waning oil supplies: the National Petroleum Council. OK, they're not actually shrieking. But in a draft report released this week, the group -- headed by former Exxon CEO Lee Raymond -- confirms that conventional crude oil supplies ...
Topics: Big Oil, biofuels, coal, energy, energy efficiency, natural gas, news, oil (all these topics)

Big oil, stopped clocks, energy efficiency An oil exec gets the diagnosis right	David Roberts	29 Jun 2007	Gristmill

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

A Ruckus in Caracas ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips leave Venezuela over oil dispute		27 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
A Ruckus in Caracas ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips leave Venezuela over oil dispute Say what you will about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the guy knows how to keep things interesting. Tired of multinational oil companies having all the fun in his resource-rich country, he has pushed for state control of the Orinoco Belt, the largest energy reserve in the Western Hemisphere; the area holds an estimat ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, Venezuela (all these topics)

Drink Me A New Orleans transplant traces the source of his tap water	Wayne Curtis	26 Jun 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, 26 Jun 2007 NEW ORLEANS, La. I was hiding out from New Orleans' early summer heat in a Magazine Street bar ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Oil, Dispatches, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Dorgan Grinder As oil prices dip, industry faces questions about summer supplies		18 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Dorgan Grinder As oil prices dip, industry faces questions about summer supplies Oil prices dipped from a nearly nine-month high today, and everyone's atwitter over what the summer will hold. The industry is beset by turmoil, with hostage-takings in Nigeria and turf battles in Gaza the latest contributors to price and supply instabilities. In addition, the U.S. biofuels push is leading Big Oil to cut back on refinery-expan ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, energy, news (all these topics)

The fight in the Senate More intransigence on climate change	Senator John Kerry	14 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, Congress, energy, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

He's Having Nun Of It Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson commits to business as usual		31 May 2007	Daily Grist
He's Having Nun Of It Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson commits to business as usual It takes a brave man to stare down a pleading nun, but that's what Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson did yesterday. At a shareholder meeting in Dallas, Sister Pat Daly of New Jersey and others spoke in support of a resolution her order submitted, proposing that Exxon set emissions-reduction targets. No thanks, said Tillerson, "I'm not going to put a banne ...
Topics: Big Oil, climate, energy, news (all these topics)

Postcard From the New Atlantis On moving to New Orleans, a city defined by water	Wayne Curtis	24 May 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 Thursday, 24 May 2007 NEW ORLEANS, La Someone once wrote that eating a tomato grown on a fire escape dem ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Oil, Dispatches, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Coal Is the Enemy of the Human Race New BP, Rio Tinto venture plans three 'clean coal' plants		21 May 2007	Daily Grist
Coal Is the Enemy of the Human Race New BP, Rio Tinto venture plans three "clean coal" plants Last week, oil giant BP announced a new "clean coal" partnership, and it's already spewing big plans. With Rio Tinto, the world's third-largest mining company, BP created Hydrogen Energy, a cleaner-energy venture. Just one hitch: they're gonna make hydrogen by burning fossil fuels, which produces carbon ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, coal, energy, news (all these topics)

Exxon still up to no good Funding deniers, still, in 2007?	David Roberts	18 May 2007	Gristmill

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

Bush 'responding' to Supreme Court Not exactly	David Roberts	14 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Big Ag, Big Oil, energy, energy efficiency, George Bush, litigation (all these topics)

Oxy Frontin Indigenous tribe sues oil company over pollution in Peru		11 May 2007	Daily Grist
Oxy Frontin Indigenous tribe sues oil company over pollution in Peru A group of indigenous tribe members from Peru has filed suit against Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum in a U.S. court, claiming that the company's operations in the Amazon from 1975 to 1999 contaminated their food and water supplies, hurt their health, and led to the death of a child. The company -- known as Oxy to friends and foes alike -- & ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, health, news, Peru (all these topics)

His Soul Goes Marching On BP CEO John Browne and U.S. Interior Department official resign		03 May 2007	Daily Grist
His Soul Goes Marching On BP CEO John Browne and U.S. Interior Department official resign In one of the oddest corporate tumbles in recent memory, BP CEO John Browne has resigned over allegations that he lied in court about the origins of his four-year relationship with a male escort. Huh wha? Browne, who spent 41 years rising through the oil giant's ranks, was slated for early retirement this ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, Department of Interior, news, shenanigans (all these topics)

Let's all go to the lobby Exxon Mobil hikes spending, big time	Kate Sheppard	26 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, business, Congress, lobbying, politics (all these topics)

The Fightin' Irish Willie Corduff has taken arms against a sea of Shell troubles	Michelle Nijhuis	24 Apr 2007	Main Dish
Willie Corduff. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. "We'd never objected to anything in our whole lives," says Irish farmer Willie Corduff. But when Shell Oil proposed to put a high-pressure gas pipeline through his family farm, Corduff changed his quiet ways. He and a handful of his neighbors refused to allow Shell on their property -- a stance that landed them in jail, and ...
Topics: Big Oil, heroes, Ireland, natural gas (all these topics)

Newsweek blesses Richard Lindzen, ignores pay-offs from fuel companies For shame!	Kit Stolz	13 Apr 2007	Gristmill

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

More ranks breaking among Big Oil A new anti-Exxon?	JMG	12 Apr 2007	Gristmill

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

Conoco Your Own Way First major U.S. oil company joins coalition to limit greenhouse gases		12 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Conoco Your Own Way First major U.S. oil company joins coalition to limit greenhouse gases You thought the times were a-changin' in the '60s? Meet 2007, baby! This week, ConocoPhillips became the first major U.S. oil company to join the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of green groups and corporations begging Congress to impose federal limits on greenhouse gases forthelovag ...
Topics: Big Oil, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, oil sands (all these topics)

Fossil fuels can't compete in a fair market Without subsidies, they're just not profitable	John McGrath	28 Mar 2007	Gristmill

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

Evil ...	David Roberts	25 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, cars, energy, green living, oil (all these topics)

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