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Hope Is Universal: A Conversation With Chevron's Head of Social Investment

Aaron Hurst | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Taproot Foundation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Chevron, International Development, Impact News

Matt Lonner took his first job in high school selling shoes to business men in the financial district. Today he oversees the global philanthropy program of the third largest company in America and works to impact the lives of people around the world.

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Workers of the World Unite -- With Shareholders

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.21.2012

In the wake of Wall Street recklessness that caused economic collapse, Congress gave shareholders and citizens Dodd-Frank to help them constrain self-dealing corporate executives. The 99% Coalition and shareholders are working with those tools even as Republicans vow to take them away.

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Blatant Insider Commodity Trading Given Pass That Would Put Stock Traders in Handcuffs

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Chevron, Securities and Exchange Commission, Aubrey McClendon, Commodity Exchanges, Gas and Oil, Chesapeake Energy, Wall Street, Business News

Here we have this enormous dichotomy between insider trading in stocks and bonds, and commodities. The difference being, with commodity trading, most everyone is impacted.

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Chevron Says These People Don't Matter

Lou Dematteis | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Chevron Sued, Environmental Damage, Green, Green Issues, Slidewide, Chevron, Chevron Pollution, Environmental Issues, Ecuador Chevron, Chevron Ecuador, Environmental Damage Ecuador, World News

I first traveled to the Ecuadoran Amazon in 1993 and witnessed first hand the contamination and environmental damage caused by Chevron.

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Clean Water in the Amazon!

Mitch Anderson | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Rainforest, Water Relief, Oil, Green Solutions, Indigenous Rights, Ecuador, Rainwater Harvesting, Big Oil, Water Pollution, Clean Water, Environmental Contamination, Water, Rainwater Catchment, Chevron Ecuador, Amazon Rainforest, Chevron, Video, Green News

Chevron is guilty of massive environmental crimes in the Amazon, but has chosen to spend millions on lobbyists, lawyers and PR firms instead of paying for a clean up of its mess.

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Top 10 Dirty Corporate Tax Dodgers of 2011

Rebecca Tarbotton | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Taxes, Rainforest Action Network, Bank of America, Chevron, Corporations, Corporate Tax Rate, Oil Subsidies, Big Oil Subsidies, Corporate Tax Breaks, Corporate Greed, Green News

Bottom-line, these dirty corporations don't need any more handouts, bailouts, or subsidies. Our country does not have a money problem; it has a priorities problem.

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Previously Secret Donations Revealed

Bloomberg | By Jonathan D. Salant | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Donor Disclosure, Secret Money, Merck, 2012 Election, 2010 Elections, American Petroleum Institute, Super PACs, Elections 2012, Chevron, Campaign Finance, Politics News

Some secret donors who gave money to groups that paid for millions of dollars in attack ads during the 2010 midterm elections are becoming public....

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Brazilian Oil Workers Sue Chevron

Reuters | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Chevron Oil Spill Lawsuit, Video, Oil Spill Brazil, Brazil Chevron Oil Spill, Brazil, Chevron Oil Spill Brazil, Brazil Rio Oil Spill, Brazil Oil Workers, Chevron, Offshore Oil Spill Brazil, Chevron Offshore Oil Spill, Brazil Workers Chevron, Reuters, Green News

* Oil workers' union sues Chevron and Transocean * Lawsuit seeks to cancel Chevron concession at Frade field * Union see...

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Brazilian Prosecutor Remains Diligent Against Chevron Oil Spill

Reuters | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Chevron Brazil, Brazil Environment, Video, Eduardo Santos De Oliveira Chevron, Brazil Oil Spill, Brazil, Chevron Oil Spill, Brazil Oil Spill Chevron, Chevron, Eduardo Santos De Oliveira Brazil, Reuters, Green News

* Oliveira does not shy away from high-profile legal brawls * Haunted by history of lawsuit delays * He ...

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Charges To Be Filed For Brazil Oil Spill

Reuters | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Energy, Brazil Offshore Oil, Video, Brazil Offshore Drilling, Brazil Oil Spill, Brazil Chevron Oil Spill, Brazil, Brazil Chevron Spill, 2011 Brazil Oil Spill, Reuters, Chevron, Brazil Oil, Green News

* Police report alleges Chevron cut safety margins * Chevron says it followed industry drilling norms * Some see charges as unfair, say gov'...

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Are We Really Powerless Against Gas Prices?

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Chevron, Karel, Charles Karel Bouley, Biodiesel, Algae Biofuel, Exxon Mobil, President Obama, Politics News

The headline on the iPad news program was grim..."What can the President do about gas prices? Not much..." As I sat thinking about being oil company victims, I looked up. And there it was: $5.12 per gallon.

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Do Apple, Bank of America, GM and Chevron Sound Like Small Businesses to You?

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Fortune 500, Chevron, President Obama, Obama Administration, Bank of America, Apple, General Motors, American Small Business League, Federal Small Business Contracts, Large Companies, Federal Contracts, Economy, Small Business, Small Business Contracts, Small Business News

The most recent data from the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) shows that last year the Obama administration diverted billions of dollars in federal small business contracts to some of the biggest companies in the world.

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Fracking Pipe Leak Worse Than Thought

AP | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Energy, Fracking Contamination, Video, Fracking, Chevron Fracking Pipe Leak, Chevron, Hydraulic Fracturing, Robinson Pennsylvania Pipe Leak, Chevron-Appalachia, Green News

MCDONALD, Pa. (AP) — A Chevron Corp. natural gas drilling unit says a leaking pipe at a southwestern Pennsylvania well site contaminated more soil t...

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'Green News Report' - January 17, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Nigeria, Regulation, Conservation, Green News Report, Pollution, Methane, Tar Sands, Video, Oil Spill, Germany, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Africa, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Environmentalism, State Department, Barack Obama, Toxic Chemicals, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Keystone XL Pipeline, Fish, Green News, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Nasa, Nome Alaska, Costa Concordia Tragedy, Italy, Pipeline, Canada, Soot, Chevron, Cruises, Subsidies, Coast Guard, Arctic, Shell Oil, Logging, Fox News, Pesticides, Economy, Coal, Colony Collapse Disorder, Richard Trumka, Bees, West Virginia, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The owner...

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Chevron Blames Victims of Its Deliberate Contamination of Ecuadorian Rainforest

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Texaco Chevron, Chevron Oil Spill, Chevron, Chevron Law Suit, Texaco Equador, Chevron Equador, Chevron Amazon, Green News

In Christmas 2010, I took my three daughters to Ecuador to take part in a "Toxi-tour" and stand witness to what could be the worst environmental disaster on the planet: the awful mess Chevron left behind at the headwaters of the Amazon.

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Trimming Astroturf From the American Petroleum Institute's 'Vote 4 Energy' Ad

Philip Radford | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Bp, Energy Citizens, Keystone XL Pipeline, American Petroleum Institute, Vote 4 Energy, Shell, Greenpeace, Executives, Tar Sands, Commercial, Big Oil, Exxonmobil, Chevron, Astroturf, Jack Gerard, Green News

Americans are clearly too smart to be faked out by Big Oil's phony grass roots strategies. Vote 4 yourself, not oil executives.

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'Green News Report' - January 5, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Antarctica, Fracking, Epa, Nigeria, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Power Plants, Iran, Innovation, Dioxin, Fda, Green News Report, Pollution, Chevron Ecuador, Coal, Sharks, Offshore Drilling, Antibiotic Resistance, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Insurance, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Superbugs, Food Politics, Africa, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Chevron, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Farming, Maple Syrup, Factory Farming, Nuclear Power, Brazil, Ecuador, Chesapeake Bay, Environmentalism, Subsidies, New York, State Department, Toxic Chemicals, BRAD BLOG, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Food, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, Extreme Weather, Video, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Riots ove...

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The 10 Best Stocks Of The Year

Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Boeing, Kraft Foods, Fast Food, Verizon, Foreclosure Crisis, Dow Jones, Ibm, Stocks, Djia, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Stock Market, Exxon Mobil, Pfizer, McDonald's, First Solar, Chevron, Home Depot, Intel, Business News

2011 may have been the year of baroque chain-restaurant creations like Denny's Maple Bacon Sundae and Burger King's Stuffed Steakhouse Burger. But in ...

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Best of TEDTalks 2011, #13: Addicted to Risk

Naomi Klein | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Video, tedtalks2011, Oil Spill, #18ideas, BP Oil Spill 2010, Oil, Tedtalks, Innovation, Chevron, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Risk, Technology News

As a culture we have been far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable.

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Naomi Klein On The Addiction To Risk

Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Video, tedtalks2011, Oil Spill, #18ideas, BP Oil Spill 2010, Oil, Tedtalks, Innovation, Chevron, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Risk, Technology News

jQuery(function($) { $('#ad_sharebox_260x60').prepend(''); }); In this special year-end collaboration, TED and The Huffington Post are ex...

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Tiger Tracker: Live Updates From Chevron World Classic

Golfweek | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Tiger Woods Chevron World Challenge, Tiger Woods, Chevron World Challenge, Chevron Tiger Woods, 2011-Chevron-World-Challenge, Chevron, Chevron World Challenge Live Scores, Tiger Woods Live Updates, Sports News

Tiger Woods opened with a strong front nine Thursday at the Chevron World Challenge, but struggled on the back. Nonetheless, he'll be in the final gro...

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Tiger In The Hunt At Chevron

Associated Press | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Tiger Woods Chevron World Challenge, Chevron World Challenge, k.j. Choi Chevron, Tiger Woods Chevron, Tiger Woods, Chevron, Chevron Leaderboard, K.J. Choi, Chevron World Challenge Scores, Sports News

By Doug Ferguson, The Associated Press THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- K.J. Choi opened with five straight birdies. Tiger Woods looked as good as he did i...

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Tiger Tracker: Live Updates From Chevron World Classic

Golfweek | Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Tiger Woods Chevron World Challenge, Chevron World Challenge, Tiger Woods, Chevron Tiger Woods, 2011-Chevron-World-Challenge, Chevron, Chevron World Challenge Live Scores, Tiger Woods Live Updates, Sports News

Tiger Woods says he can "sense it." Is the Chevron World Challenge where the former World No. 1 will break through for his first victory in two years?...

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'Green News Report' - November 22, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Australia, Oil Subsidies, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Epa, Oysters, Renewable Energy, Supercommittee, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Drought, Video, Conservatives, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Corporate Media, Steven Chu, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Chevron, Global Warming Deniers, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Farming, Carbon Emissions, Ipcc, Brazil, Nuclear Power, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Transocean, Barack Obama, Dept of Energy, Carbon Tax, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Ocean Acidification, Fox News, Oceans, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Seafood, Michael Mann, Climategate, Coal, Radiation, Coal Mining, Fukushima, University of East Anglia, Texas, Water, Japan, Solyndra, China, Hackers, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Meet the ...

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Brazil Says Chevron Oil Slick Has Shrunk

AP | STAN LEHMAN | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Chevron Brazil, Video, Chevron Oil Spill Slick, Brazil Oil Spill, Brazil, Brazil Chevron Oil Spill, Chevron Oil Spill, Chevron, Chevron Oil Slick, Brazil Oil Slick, Green News

SAO PAULO — The size of the oil slick at a well operated by U.S.-based Chevron Corp. off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state is more than 80 perce...

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