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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Fortune Brainstorm Green Shai Agassi talks electric cars in Israel	David Roberts	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
I'm watching Shai Agassi, founder and CEO of Project Better Place, talk about the scheme he put together to fill Israel with electrical cars and recharging stations, with the ultimate goal of eliminating oil as a transportation fuel in the country. (He's going to do it in Denmark as well.) (A side note: this meeting room is filled with Herman Miller Aeron chairs. Sweet!) I'm a little behind on the details (dude talks fast), but it's a torrent of goodness. We're t ...
Topics: business, climate, electric vehicles, energy, innovation, Israel, oil (all these topics)

An ominous statement from Shell Conventional oil will peak within seven years	Joseph Romm	27 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The oil company with the best strategic planning says the day of reckoning is nigh: World demand for oil and gas will outstrip supply within seven years, according to Royal Dutch Shell. The oil multinational is predicting that conventional supplies will not keep pace with soaring population growth and the rapid pace of economic development. Jeroen van der Veer, Shell's chief executive, said in an e-mail to the company's staff this week that outpu ...
Topics: business, energy, oil, climate (all these topics)

Good News for People Who Love Bad News Reports bring various doomy and gloomy predictions		22 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:52 PM on 22 Oct 2007 Indeed, the depressing reports come fast and furious. German-based Energy Watch Group says the world has already reached peak oil, and predicts that production will now fall by 7 percent a year. The Worldwatch Institute suggests that 21 cities that will have populations of 8 million or more by 2015 are highly vulnerable to havoc wreaked by rising seas. The comprehensive &qu ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change impacts, energy, news, oil, severe weather (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)

Upward Mobility ExxonMobil says it's taking climate change seriously -- seriously		29 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Upward Mobility ExxonMobil says it's taking climate change seriously -- seriously Guess who said this about climate change: "We know enough now -- or, society knows enough now -- that the risk is serious and action should be taken." No, not some dirty hippie, but an executive from oil behemoth ExxonMobil. (Ow, our jaw!) Greenhouse-gas reduction has become a theme of Exxon's advertising, and the company is p ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, news, oil (all these topics)

Put a Liar in Your Tank White House official who edited climate reports moves to Exxon		15 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Put a Liar in Your Tank White House official who edited climate reports moves to Exxon Philip Cooney, the White House official (and former oil-industry lobbyist) recently outed for watering down government climate-change reports, has left his position in the Bush administration to take a new job at ... wait for it ... ExxonMobil. Now, we know what you're thinking, but you've got it all wrong. His sudden de ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, news, oil, politics (all these topics)

Going down with the ship	David Roberts	14 Jun 2005	Gristmill
Lee Raymond, chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobil, has decided that global warming is bunk and that his company is not going to waste time or money funding renewable energy. Openly and unapologetically, the world's No. 1 oil company disputes the notion that fossil fuels are the main cause of global warming. Along with the Bush administration, Exxon opposes the Kyoto accord and the very idea of capping global-warming emissions. Congress is ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, oil (all these topics)

Clash of the Titans An excerpt from Boiling Point highlights a clash of interests over climate change	Ross Gelbspan	21 Jul 2004	Arts and Minds
Boiling Point By Ross Gelbspan, Basic Books, 256 pages, July 2004 Journalist Ross Gelbspan's new book, Boiling Point (out in late July from Basic Books), reveals how politicians, big oil and coal, the media, and even activists have fueled the climate crisis -- and how we might still avert disaster. This excerpt traces what Gelbspan describes as a corrupt relationshi ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, oil, politics, United States (all these topics)

Exxon and On and On First-of-its-kind report lambastes ExxonMobil for CO2 emissions	Amanda Griscom	06 Feb 2004	Muckraker
Warning signs. Photo: Greenpeace. ExxonMobil and its predecessor companies stretching back to Standard Oil were responsible for a whopping 5 percent of the world's total carbon dioxide emissions between 1882 and 2002, thanks to the companies' operations and the burning of their products, according to a recent study put out by the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies an ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, Muckraker, oil (all these topics)

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