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Headline	Author	Published	Section
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
A little while back Exxon was trying to backpedal on its global warming shenanigans, claiming it had been misunderstood and that it wasn't funding those nasty denialist groups any more. In what is sure to come as a huge shock to ... nobody, that turned out to be bullsht. According to a new report from Greenpeace, Exxon is still actively funding 14 groups for "climate change work," and you can bet that work isn't devoted to fine-tuning a cap-and-trade syste ...*
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
Wondering what to make of this? President Bush responded to a Supreme Court environmental ruling by settling on regulatory changes that don't need congressional approval, the White House said Monday. Bush is announcing the steps he is directing his administration to take in a Rose Garden appearance later Monday. Read on down a little bit: In his State of the Union address in January, Bush set a goal of reducing gas consumption by 20 percent over 10 years. Und ...
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
Perhaps fearing the coming crunch of climate and energy legislation, oil giant Exxon Mobil more than doubled their reported lobbying expenditures in 2006 to $14.5 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. This blows their previous year's total of $7.14 million and next-highest-spender Chevron's $7.5 million out of the water.
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
This Monday, Newsweek will publish an op-ed by well-known climate-change contrarian Richard Lindzen, which concludes that global warming is nothing to worry about and may even be a good thing. 'Why So Gloomy?' he wonders, and adds that 'a warmer climate could be more beneficial than the one we have now.' Nothing new here: Lindzen's been making the same points for years, despite evidence to the contrary, and despite the fact that he served on a prestigious panel chosen b ...
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
ConocoPhillips steps up to the plate.
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
News breaking from Canada: It turns out that once the government stops subsidizing fossil fuel developments ... fossil fuel developments are increasingly unprofitable! Brief summary of the link: It looks like all forms of fossil-fuel development in Canada -- especially the tar sands -- are going to suffer as governments are forced by public pressure to reduce the subsidies and tax breaks they've been doling out. This looks to be equal parts environmental activism and ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, energy (all these topics)

Evil ...	David Roberts	25 Mar 2007	Gristmill
... yet mesmerizing: (ht: reader SW)
Topics: Big Oil, cars, energy, green living, oil (all these topics)

On a Bing and an Err Stanford and U.C. Berkeley criticized for partnerships with Big Oil		14 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
On a Bing and an Err Stanford and U.C. Berkeley criticized for partnerships with Big Oil Movie producer Steve Bing has yanked a promised $2.5 million donation to Stanford University in response to several TV and print ads wherein ExxonMobil touts its partnership with the school. Exxon is funding up to $100 million of Stanford's climate and energy research; Bing, whose family has given millions to his alma mater, is unimpr ...
Topics: Big Oil, education, energy, news (all these topics)

But Wait, There's More High-tech extraction methods are delaying the peak of world oil production		05 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
But Wait, There's More High-tech extraction methods are delaying the peak of world oil production Remember the predictions that the world was at or near the peak of oil production? Sigh with us now, for industry is using high-tech methods to suck oil from wells once considered tapped out. Thanks to steam and carbon dioxide injections, as well as 3D modeling, Big Oil is breathing new life into old oil fields: Chevron, for instance, is ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, news (all these topics)

Where Credit is Due Democrats take control of U.S. Congress, vow energy-fund reallocation		04 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Where Credit is Due Democrats take control of U.S. Congress, vow energy-fund reallocation Here at Grist, we're advocates of multipartisan cooperation and fans of progress, no matter what its origins. But as the Democratic-led, greener-seeming Congress takes over today, we'd like to allow ourselves a whoop. Whoop! One of the Dems' top priorities is an energy package that will stick it to Big Oil. By repealing oil ...
Topics: Big Oil, climate, energy, news, politics (all these topics)

Snowe and Rockefeller on the 'uncertainty' agenda Senators send letter to ExxonMobil	Andrew Dessler	04 Dec 2006	Gristmill
Today's Wall Street Journal printed a letter from Senators Snowe and Rockefeller to ExxonMobil (here) along with an editorial about the letter (here). In the letter, Snowe and Rockefeller ask ExxonMobil to stop perpetuating the uncertainty agenda (which they refer to as the 'obfuscation agenda'). The letter is similar in many respects to a letter sent to Exxon by the British Royal Society. The editorial is a broadside against the Senators. How dare they write that l ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, climate, climate change skepticism, politics (all these topics)

Price clubbed Should enviros view high gas prices as good news?	Clark Williams-Derry	27 Apr 2006	Gristmill
Like many environmentalists, I tend to think that gasoline prices -- even at today's wallet-rending heights -- are too low. In fact, no matter how high the market price for petroleum goes, it ought to be higher, since it won't include the so-called 'external costs' of using oil. For example, whenever I burn a gallon of gas in my car, I'm creating pollution and climate-warming emissions; fostering overseas military entanglements; increasing the risk of oil s ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, gas prices, oil (all these topics)

Maybe Steps Shell and ExxonMobil power gas platform with wind and solar		19 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Maybe Steps Shell and ExxonMobil power gas platform with wind and solar The cognitive dissonance! It hurts! A new gas platform in the North Sea will be run entirely on wind and solar power. The tiny (26 by 26 feet) platform, co-owned by Royal Dutch Shell and ExxonMobil, cost about $143 million to develop and was built f ...
Topics: Big Oil, commercial and industry organizations, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, natural gas, news, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

Catfight! Big Oil and Big Auto get into a war of words	David Roberts	11 Apr 2006	Gristmill
Writing on a private company blog directed at journalists and analysts, Chrysler's head spokesflack Jason Vines aimed the big guns at Big Oil: Despite a documented history of blowing their exorbitant profits on outlandish executive salaries and stock buybacks, and hoarding their bounty by avoiding technologies, policies and legislation that would protect the population and environment and lower fuel costs, Big Oil insists on transferring all of that responsibili ...
Topics: Big Auto, Big Oil, business, energy, oil (all these topics)

Barack Obama on energy independence That man's got a pair, you gotta give him that	David Roberts	28 Feb 2006	Gristmill
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) delivered a major speech on energy independence today. The setting was a meeting of the National Governors Association -- specifically, the Governors' Ethanol Coalition.I'll probably have more to say about it in coming days, but for now, I've just reprinted the entire speech below the fold, for your viewing pleasure. I think it's pretty ballsy. But let me know what you think. Remarks of Senator Barack Obama Governor's Ethanol Coalitio ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Big Oil, heroes, politics (all these topics)

Stevens and the defense bill	David Roberts	19 Dec 2005	Gristmill
Update [2005-12-19 14:47:12 by David Roberts]: Oops, I forgot the obvious: To try to stop this thing, please write your Senators. As forecast last week, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) managed to get Arctic Refuge drilling attached to the defense spending bill. He couldn't wrangle it into the budget reconciliation bill, so this is his last-ditch effort. He has said: Katrina will be on this [defense] bill. That's what makes the defense bill a little bit a ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, Big Oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Ted Stevens, wilderness (all these topics)

Greasing Their Alms On oil subsidies	Umbra Fisk	03 Aug 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Grist keeps mentioning that the U.S. government gives large subsidies to oil companies, but doesn't go further into what these subsidies are. I can't make a good argument against the government's subsidizing Big Oil if I don't know more about it: Are the subsidies tax breaks, and if so, for what? Are the tax breaks larger than for most other large companies? How biased is our treatment of Big Oil? Christine Hillsboro, Or ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, Big Oil, business, energy, oil, politics (all these topics)

Bush Sucks Meet the Bush team, brought to you by ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Texaco	Jim Motavalli	26 Jan 2001	Soapbox
To an extraordinary degree, the administration assembled by George W. Bush is made up of men and women with experience in the automobile and oil industries. With the energy crisis in California, such energy expertise at the helm, it would seem, must be a good thing. Would that it were so. In reality, the Bush team is so tilted toward Big Oil that it will never give a thought to the on ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, cars, energy, politics (all these topics)

A Hull of a Problem		20 Jul 2000	Daily Grist
A Hull of a Problem The U.S. oil industry is engaged in a cynical ploy to dodge federal regulations that require safer tankers, putting the Pacific coastline, from Alaska to California, at risk for a huge oil spill, writes Jim Fulton, the head of the David Suzuki Foundation in Canada. In the wake of the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989, Congress mandated that all single-hulled tankers be replaced with double-hulled ones by ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, oil, water pollution (all these topics)

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