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Legendary Trader's Fund Takes Huge Oil Losses

Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Commodities, Returns, Phibro, Andrew Hall, Oil Prices, Occidental Petroleum, The Astenbeck II Fund, Commodity Fund, Citigroup, Business News

NEW YORK - The flagship commodity fund run by top Phibro trader Andrew Hall suffered a 12 percent fall last week as oil prices tumbled, a fund inv...

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PHOTOS: Hammer Family Puts Three Homes On The Market For $26 Million

Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, La Real Estate, Armand Hammer Family, Occidental Petroleum, Armand Hammer, Armie Hammer, Los Angeles News

Via Realtor.com: The Hammer family (of Occidental Petroleum fortune and patrons of UCLA's Hammer Museum) have put three properties on the market for a...

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Gasland Attack Group 'Energy In Depth' Funded By Major Oil and Gas Interests

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Fox, Energy in Depth, Bp, Fracking, Royal Dutch Shell, Halliburton, Gasland, Occidental Petroleum, Natural Gas, Chevron, Xto Energy, DeSmog Blog, Anadarko, Green News

Perhaps Energy In Depth thinks it might lose credibility with the media and the public if it revealed such key support from notoriously reckless companies. Perhaps it should.

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History Made in the Ecuadorian Amazon!

Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Ecuador, Social Justice, Environmental Justice, Human Rights, Chevron, Occidental Petroleum, Oil, Birth Defects, Texaco, Indigenous Rights, Cancer, Justice, Chevron Equador, Chevron Amazon, Green News

The people of the Ecuadorian Amazon took on that struggle of a lifetime and yesterday the court made its decision -- Chevron is guilty.

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Vets vs. Big Oil: Prop 23 in California

Jon Soltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Proposition 23, California, National Security, Green Technology, Valero, Occidental Petroleum, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Global Warming Solutions Act, Tesoro, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Green Energy, George Schultz, Global Warming, Politics News

The overwhelming majority of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans not only see our dependence on oil as a security threat, but believe that we need to pass clean energy legislation.

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What's Up With the Rainforest: Chevron's Cover-up of Gross Environmental Abuses in Ecuador

James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Peru, Rainforest Newsladder, Brazil, Ecuador, Occidental Petroleum, Chevron, Rainforest Alliance, James Boyce, Green News

Ecuador's people have been struggling for over a decade to achieve justice in their lawsuit against the US oil giant, Chevron.

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The Least Ethical Companies In The World (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Grace Kiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ryanair, Least Ethical Companies, Slidepoll, Corporate Ethics, Occidental Petroleum, Covalence, Mediaset, Freeport-Mcmoran, Monsanto, Syngenta, Barrick-Mining-Company, Grupo Mexico, Halliburton, Total, Least Ethical Companies in the World, Philip Morris, Chevron, Business News

Can ethics be quantified? Or, better yet, can a lack of ethics be quantified? This week, the Swiss research firm Covalence released its annual r...

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Citigroup Returns to Banking by Divesting Its Oil Trading Arm

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Federal Bailouts, Phibro, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Occidental Petroleum, Lehman, Oil, Treasury, Federal Reserve, Andy Hall, Jpmorgan, Bailouts, Business News

It is scandalous that those in government vested with the responsibility of financial oversight have permitted a culture of "heads they win, tails we lose" to take hold and to grow into a financial Frankenstein.

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Darwin's Lessons for the Extractive Industries

Janet Ranganathan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Occidental Petroleum, Chevron, Corporate Social Responsibility, Peru, Oil Companies, Shell Oil, Green News

In true Darwinian fashion, the most successful extractive companies are adapting to forces of change by investing in improvements to their environmental and social management systems.

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McCain Heads To Colombia, Already Tied To Country By Lobbyists

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colombia Trade Mccain, Charlie Black Colombia, Mccain Lobbyists Colombia, Colombia John Mccain, McCain Lobbyists, Mccain Uribe, McCain Free Trade, John McCain Colombia, Occidental Petroleum Mccain, Charlie Black, Occidental Petroleum, John McCain, Occidental, Politics News

On Tuesday, Sen. John McCain will travel to Colombia to highlight his support for a free trade pact with that country. It is a trip that comes with a...

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