"Emerald Paintbrush Award" For Greenwashing Goes To... (VIDEO)
It's Jackass meets environmental activism! Okay, so maybe it's a little heavier on the Jackass side. Earlier this week, dinner jacket-clad Greenpeace ...
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Stop the CSR Spin
Stefan Deeran | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green
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A recent corporate social responsibility (CSR) ranking in Fortune magazine reveals one of the many inherent flaws in this burgeoning practice.
Oil Business Not So Bad: BP Posts 83 Percent Profit Growth
AP | EMILY FLYNN VENCAT | Posted 10.28.2008 | Business
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LONDON — British oil company BP PLC reported a huge 83-percent rise in third-quarter net profit Tuesday on the back of surging energy prices bet...
Unearthed: The News Without the Chaff
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 10.17.2008 | Media
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This week: 2008 becomes the bloodiest year of the war in Afghanistan; Iraq: war for oil confirmed; ABC refuses climate protection ad; National debt clock runs out of digits; Hidden earmarks.
Iraq's Oil Up For Grabs Today In Biggest Oil Sale Ever
The Guardian | Posted 10.13.2008 | Business
The biggest ever sale of oil assets will take place today, when the Iraqi government puts 40bn barrels of recoverable reserves up for offer in London....
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Already Here!
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 08.26.2008 | Business
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The new tool to crush the opposition is funded by a new menace, that of capitalism built on a phenomenal wealth in commodities and oil.
McCain And BP Sharing Logo Ideas?
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics
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A sharp-eyed Democrat sends over screen grabs of two, similarly designed logos: the image for John McCain's Lexington Project (his energy policy) and ...
Oil Earnings Mixed On "Weak" Gasoline Margins
AP | JOHN PORRETTO | Posted 07.30.2008 | Business
HOUSTON — The roiling global oil market continues to pick its winners and losers, as oil giant BP PLC reported a 28 percent rise in second-quart...
Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media
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Government report links extreme weather to global warming, traffic pollution to childhood allergies, Denver Police stockpiling pepper weapons and Rumsfeld got torture advice from Army psychologists.
Mission Accomplished
Jeff Danziger | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
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The F Word: Shelling Out for Shell
Laura Flanders | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Of 46 international oil companies, including firms from China, India and Russia that had their eye on the first major oil deals in post-Saddam Iraq, guess who got the gig? Exxon-Mobil, Shell, Total and BP!
With Friends Like These . . . BP And Russian Partners Fight
Reuters | Simon Johnson and Melissa Akin | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business
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British oil major BP Plc accused the Russian partners in its TNK-BP joint venture of acting like corporate raiders on Thursday, but the Russian shareh...
Oil Execs to Congress: I Drink Your Milkshake
Chris Kelly | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
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Supply and demand is one factor in determining price, but another factor used to be called "competition." Again, I'm not an economist, but I'm pretty sure that was supposed to drive prices down.
Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media
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Hundreds of ducks made a fatal landing in oil and toxic sludge; Republicans block federal aid to wind and solar; the shocking testimony of three whistleblowers on US contractors in Iraq.
The New York Times' Hidden Hand On Oil's Agenda
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.25.2008 | Business
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Leave it to the New York Times and Mouwad to convey the imprimatur of what once passed for serious journalism to this greatest of all con games.
Cheney Greets King Abdullah In SaudiLand With High Fives As Oil Sails Past $100 Per Barrel
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 03.27.2008 | Business
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If anything can be called a success in these bleak seven years, it is the oil industry's triumphal avalanche of riches, having been orchestrated with the White Houses' blessing.
BP's Problems In Russia Mount
New York Times | ANDREW E. KRAMER | Posted 03.21.2008 | Business
BP's problems in Russia continued Friday. A Russian environmental agency announced that it would inspect a large oil field in Siberia, the Samotlor, ...
Oil In Troubled Waters
Harry Fuller | Posted 01.03.2008 | Business
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Oil in troubled waters. Death to the polar bears?
In 2008: A Few Questions on Energy For The Candidate
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 12.31.2007 | Business
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This administration has done little to confront the looming danger that our consumption of fossil fuels presents to the nation's environment, economy and national security.
BP Proves Beyond Petroleum Was Greenwashing
Joseph Romm | Posted 12.18.2007 | Business
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BP, the oil company that lavished millions on advertising its move "Beyond Petroleum," announced this month it's putting $3 billion into this dirtiest of dirty fuels!
18 Top Brit Companies Pledge To Help Curb Carbon Emissions
New York Times | JULIA WERDIGIER | Posted 11.25.2007 | Business
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Britain's largest companies are pledging to offer greener products and invest in research and technology as part of a wider push to reduce carbon emis...
BP To Dump Over 700 U.S. Convenience Stores
Financial Times | Sheila McNulty | Posted 11.16.2007 | Business
BP will sell its more than 700 US convenience stores as part of the streamlining programme begun at the UK oil giant by Tony Hayward, new chief execut...
How Big Oil Is Forced To Share The Wealth
Wall Street Journal | Guy Chazan | Posted 11.09.2007 | Business
Oil at $100 a barrel is a bane for fuel consumers. But it isn't entirely a boon for major oil companies, either. The rub: The economics of the produc...
Energy Trading Oversight Awakens from its Slumber with Anticipated BP Settlement
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.25.2007 | Business
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I have long contented that oil prices are being manipulated higher by oil interests and their allies. Now comes a sweeping validation of these contentions.
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Treehugger.com | Posted 12.29.2008 | Green