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'Drop-In' Biofuels: The Best of All Possible Worlds?

Colleen Becker | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Fuel Industry, Louisiana, Biofuels, Royal Dutch Shell, Alternative Energy, Synthetic Genomics, Exxonmobil, Environment, Petroleum, Ethanol, Drop-in Biofuels, Job Creation, ThyssenKrupp Uhde, Sundrop Fuels, Governor Bobby Jindal, Green News

Given the potential of drop-in biofuels, the U.S. and EU have every reason to raise renewable fuel thresholds higher. Advantages include energy security, reduced dependence on foreign oil, fewer carbon dioxide emissions and domestic job creation.

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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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Does JPMorgan's Derivatives Fiasco Portend the Collapse of Crude Oil and Gasoline Prices?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Rex Tillerson, JPMorgan Chase, Price of Gasoline, Directional Bets, Speculation, Financial Derivatives, Exxonmobil, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Oil, Financial Crisis, Federal Reserve, Vlcc, Wall Street Banks, Jamie Dimon, Senate, Business News

It is a grotesque symbol of how the Wall Street banks control our government. Mr. Dimon, sir, out of respect to our waning confidence in government institutions, your resignation from the Fed Board is well past due.

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'Green News Report' - May 1, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Epa, Regulation, Clean Energy, Nuclear, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Coal, Climate Scientists, Drought, Video, Solar Energy, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Dow Chemical, Climate Science, Exxonmobil, Anti-Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Wind Energy, Barack Obama, Toxic Chemicals, BRAD BLOG, Tipping Point, Green News, Sustainability, Natural Gas, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Pacific Garbage Patch, Wildlife; Endangered Species; ALEC, Poll, Pipeline, Louisiana, Oil Spill, Big Oil, Electric Cars, Clouds, Ibm, Fisheries, Overfishing, American Legislative Exchange Council, Nrc, Water, Fox News, Neil Cavuto, Oceans, Aei, Hydraulic Fracturing, Green News

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Exxon Mobil Cleans Up Spill

AP | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Energy, Video, Exxon Mobil Louisiana Oil Spill, Exxon Mobil Clean Up, Pointe Coupee Parish, Exxon Mobil, Exxonmobil, Pointe Coupee Parish Exxon Mobil, Exxon Mobil Louisiana Spill, Louisiana Oil Spill Clean Up, Exxon Mobil Oil Spill, Pointe Coupee Parish Oil Spill, Green News

TORBERT, La. (AP) — Exxon Mobil Corp. says it is cleaning up about 80,000 gallons of oil that spilled from a pipeline in rural Louisiana. ...

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'Green News Report' - April 26, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Epa, Regulation, Green News Report, Green Energy, Climate Scientists, Video, Solar Energy, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Dow Chemical, Anti-Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, BRAD BLOG, Tipping Point, Green News, Sustainability, Natural Gas, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Ice Melt, Wind Energy, Roundup, Antarctica, David Cameron, Exxonmobil, Factory Farms, Clean Energy, Herbicides, Pollution, Coal, Monsanto, Drought, Nuclear, Stephen Chu, Britain, Sea Level Rise; Chernobyl, Iea, Corn, Oil Profits, Agent Orange, Toxic Chemicals, Donald Trump, Wildfires, International Energy Agency, Ice Sheets, Jimmy Fallon, Slow Jam the News, Green News

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ALEC's Other 'Deadly Force' Campaign to Kill Climate Initiatives

Elliott Negin | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Union of Concerned Scientists, American Legislative Exchange Council, Koch Brothers, General Motors, Center for Media and Democracy, Climate Science, Exxon Mobil, Exxonmobil, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, BP America, Global Warming Deniers, DeSmog Blog, Heartland Institute, Global Warming, Green News, Politics News

With ALEC in the spotlight, what has still gone unmentioned is its longtime stealth campaign to scuttle state -- and federal -- climate change initiatives, despite the fact that a number of its corporate members publicly acknowledge that global warming is a serious problem.

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Minds Meet on Shale Gas/Fracking

Bill Chameides | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Fracking, Cornell University, Exxonmobil, Oil, Hydrofracking, Shale, Duke University, Avner Vengosh, Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas, Robert Howarth, Coal, Methane, Natural Gas, Green News

A group of the nation's leading experts on energy and the environment are at Duke this week attending a workshop to try to ferret out the facts (and tamp down the hype) around shale gas and fracking.

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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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Big Oil Doesn't Need Handouts

Ted Danson | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Exxonmobil, Bp, Gas Prices, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Ted Danson, Gasoline, Oil Industry, Big Oil, Oil Subsidies, Offshore Drilling, Green News

Instead of subsidizing oil companies that pollute our oceans and warm our planet, we ought to be investing in a clean energy future.

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How a Three Year Old, a Large Multinational, and a Professional Golfer Ruined My Approach to Teaching ... in a Good Way

Tony Zini | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Phil Michelson, Math Education, Stem, Education Reform, Science Education, Education, Exxonmobil, Education News

Every once in a while you experience a "perfect storm" in life. Events, circumstances, experiences, even what you are reading all align and tell you the same thing.

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Why We Are the 53% Fits Into We Are the 99%... Besides the Math

Edward Murray | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: General Electric, Exxonmobil, George W. Bush, We Are the 99 Percent, We Are the 53%, Mbna, Obama, Ernst & Young, Josh Trevino, Fox News, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Pricewaterhousecoopers, Cnn, Morgan Stanley, Unemployment, Credit Suisse, Lehman Brothers, Jesse Lagreca, Occupy Wall Street, Citibank, Erick Erickson, Bear Stearns, Corporations Who Pay No Income Tax, UBS AG, Politics News

Regardless of what tax bracket we are in, I think we can all agree that it is morally reprehensible that the current financial system is structured to allow easy purchase of, and control over, our elected officials.

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Lawsuit Filed Over Yellowstone River Oil Spill

AP | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Montana, Environment, Exxonmobil, Yellowstone River, Oil Spill, Exxon Mobil Pipeline, Yellowstone River Oil Spill, Yellowstone Oil Spill, Montana Oil Spill, Green News

BILLINGS, Mont. — Several landowners whose property was damaged when an ExxonMobil Corp. pipeline spilled oil into the Yellowstone River have fi...

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'Green News Report' - September 20 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Climategate, Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Fracking, Australia, Epa, Tar Snds, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Canada, Green News Report, Pollution, Gulf War Syndrome, Veterans, Offshore Drilling, Rising Sea Level, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Exxonmobil, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Gulf War, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Energy, Bill Clinton, Siemens, Fukushima, Environmentalism, Japan, Barack Obama, Shell Oil, Gasland, Energy Efficiency, Nuclear Energy, BRAD BLOG, Arctic, Water Pollution, Protests, Green News, Sustainability, Heatwave, Oceans, Hydraulic Fracturing, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Solyndra, Green News

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The Oil Market Plays Casino While the Obama Administration Acts as Croupier

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.19.2011

The Cramer interview is breathtaking in exposing the administration's total lack of understanding of the distorted formation of the price of oil and gasoline in today's markets and seemingly impervious to its cost to the economy and its destructive impact on jobs.

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'Green News Report' - September 15, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Sustainability, Heatwave, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Solyndra, Australia, Al Gore, Exxonmobil, Transocean, Alaska, Hurricanes, Bp, Halliburton, Nascar, Coral Reefs, Water Pollution, Endangered Species, BP Oil Spill, Green News

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Despite Budget Shortfalls, Texas Plans New Road To Exxon Headquarters

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Toll Roads, Houston, Exxon Mobil, Exxonmobil, Exxon, Trans-Texas-Corridor, Grand Parkway, Eminent Domain, Rick Perry, Texas Toll Roads, Politics News

Texas faces a transportation funding gap of $315 billion over the next 20 years, according to the state's transportation commission. Ten of its top 20...

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Rise of Political Consultants: When the Washington-Main Street Disconnect Began

Don McNay | Posted 10.07.2011

For many years, the two parties were the Democrats and the Republicans. Now I view it as people who depend on Wall Street versus people who don't depend on Wall Street.

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Japan's People Come Together to Ration Energy While We Continue to Pump Tankerful of Profits Into Big Oil

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Energy, TBoone Pickens, Congress, Nytimes, Gasoline, The Administratioin, Fukushima, World, Exxonmobil, Media, Big Oil, Opec, Business, Japan, Hybrids, Oil, Huffington Post, World War II, The Administration, N.y. Tmes, Detroit, Natural Gas, Green News

Given the market distortions at hand, it is time to set limits on the use of gasoline throughout the nation by mandating consumption ceilings that would apply to gasoline only, while alternative fuels would be unencumbered

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Yellowstone Oil Spill Reveals Gaps In Oversight: 'We're Asking For Another Catastrophe'

AP | MATTHEW BROWN and GARANCE BURKE | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Yellowstone Oil Spill 2011, Energy, Yellowstone Oil Spill, Exxon Mobil, Yellowstone National Park, Exxonmobil, Exxon Mobil Oil Spill, Yellowstone Oil Pipeline, Exxon Oil Spill, Green News

BILLINGS, Mont. — Three weeks after a broken Exxon Mobil pipeline spilled 1,000 barrels of oil into the Yellowstone River, federal officials rem...

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Montana Judge Blocks Equipment Bound For Canada's Oil Sands

HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Energy, Tar Sands, Montana, Imperial Oil, Exxon Mobil, Exxonmobil, Oil, Idaho, Canada, Megaloads, Oil Equipment, Green News

A Montana judge has delivered a significant victory to opponents of a plan by oil companies to truck oversized oil equipment destined for Canada's tar...

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Exxon's Failed Pipeline May Have Carried Oil Sands Crude

Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Energy, Yellowstone Spill, Yellowstone Oil Spill, Exxon Mobil, Exxon Spill, Exxonmobil, Oil Sands Crude, Exxon Pipeline, Green News

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters/Laura Zuckerman) - An Exxon Mobil pipeline that ruptured, leaking oil into Yellowstone River, may have sometimes carried a ...

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Exxon To Drain Oil From Failed Yellowstone Pipeline

AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Energy, Exxon Mobil Corp, Yellowstone Oil Spill, Nature, Yellowstone Exxon, Exxonmobil, Exxon Oil Cleanup, Yellowstone River, Exxon Oil Spill, Green News

LAUREL, Mont. — Exxon Mobil Corp. said Wednesday that it plans to use vacuum trucks to suck any remaining oil from a failed pipeline near Laurel...

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Exxon Mobil Must Pay $1.5 Billion For Gas Station Leak

AP | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Energy, Exxon Gas Leak, Maryland Exxon, Exxon Mobil, Exxonmobil, Exxon, Exxon Gas Station Leak, Exxon Maryland, Exxon Lawsuit, Exxon Leak, Green News

TOWSON, Md. — Exxon Mobil Corp. has been ordered to pay more than $1.5 billion in damages to 160 families and businesses affected by a 2006 gaso...

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Denial for Hire: Willie Soon's Career Fueled by Big Oil, Coal and Koch Money

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Exxonmobil, Koch Industries, Koch Brothers, Willie Soon Climate Change, Heartland Institute, American Petroleum Institute, Exxon Mobil, Green News

Willie Soon, the notorious climate denier who has made a career out of attacking the IPCC and climate scientists, has received over $1 million in funding from Big Oil and coal industry sponsors over the past decade, according to a new report from Greenpeace.

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