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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Abortion, Wind Power, Coal Plants, Co2 Emissions, Wolf Reintroduction, Yellowstone, Green Jobs, Exxon Mobil, Renewable Energy, Ford Motor Co, Environmental Protection Agency, Bush Administration Torture, Kbr, John Ashcroft Waterboarding, General Motors, KBR Electrocution, Defense Contractors, Contraception, Gray Wolves Endangered Species, SUV Sales, Green News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

Ashcroft claims waterboarding isn't torture, Green energy sector jobs surge, Ford offers more fuel efficient vehicles in the U.S., and the White House tries to define contraception as abortion.

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Oil Vey! Exxon's Capitol Hill Shaming

Doug Kendall | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil, Oil Drilling, Republican Congressmen, Mississippi Oil Spill, Big Oil, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Exxon Mobil, Green News
Doug Kendall

The people of Alaska are still feeling the financial impact of the spill nearly 20 years later, long after the three-year period covered by compensatory damages in the case.

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If We Drill in the US, We Don't Get the Oil

Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Drilling, Oil, Exxon-Mobil, Republicans, Offshore Drilling, Media, Democrats, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

Everyone seems to assume that if we drill for oil in the US, we will get the oil and won't be dependent on foreign oil anymore. But we won't get anything, Exxon-Mobil will.

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Right-Wing Supreme Court Draws Ire Of Senate Judiciary Committee

Cristóbal Joshua Alex | Posted 07.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Rights, Supreme Court, Congress, Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy, Exxon Mobil, Mandatory Binding Arbitration, Tracy Barker, Exxon Valdez, Liberties, Roberts Court, Fraud, Senate, Haliburton, Securities, Hearings, National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights, Justice, Arbitration, Home News
Cristóbal Joshua Alex

The Supreme Court has shifted dangerously to the right and is now the most pro-business Court since the monopoly greasing "Lochner-era" Court of the late 19th century.

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Alarming Gains for Big Oil Need a Response

Tom Matzzie | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Gas Prices, John McCain, Bush, Big Oil, Exxon Mobil, George W. Bush, Oil Prices, Oil, Iraq, Republicans, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Politics News
Tom Matzzie

Progressives are losing ground with the public on drilling. We must create a message-frame that attaches all of the negatives of Big Oil companies to the drilling proposals under consideration.

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Alaskan Fisherwoman, Dr. Riki Ott Responds to the Supreme Court

J.S. McDougall | Posted 07.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil, Oil Prices, Exxon Mobil, Green News
J.S. McDougall

J.S. McDougall is the lead blogger at Chelsea Green. Dr. Riki Ott is an internationally known expert on how oil spills affect marine life. A former fi...

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Bp, Exxon Mobil, Donald Rumsfeld, Pepper Spray, Traffic Pollution, VA Chantix, Dick Cheney, Shell Oil, Iraq War Veteran, Childhood Allergies, Peak Oil, Democratic National Convention Denver, Blackwater Iraq, Clean Technology, Ptsd, No-Bid Contracts, Global Warming, Sharia, Media News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

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.

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Supreme Court Hands Exxon $2 Billion... and Progressives an Opening

Doug Kendall | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts, Lilly Ledbetter, Antonin Scalia, Exxon Mobil, Environment, Conservative Supreme Court Justices, Justice Stevens, Exxon Valdez, Politics News
Doug Kendall

At a time when gas prices and oil company profits are record highs, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken $2 billion from 32,000 Americans who lost their livelihood in the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

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Court Spares Exxon $2 Billion In Damages From Valdez Spill

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Exxon Mobil, Exxon, Exxon Valdez, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Supreme Court Rules on Exxon, Supreme Court, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday slashed the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million, a deci...

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Mission Accomplished

Jeff Danziger | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bp, No-Bid Contracts, Shell, Mobil, Exxon, Iraq, Cartoons, Political Cartoon, Exxon Mobil, Cartoon, Political Cartoons, Politics News
Jeff Danziger

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Missing White House Emails, Iraq War, Samuel Alito Exxon, Exxon Mobil, Polar Bears, Iraq Contractors, Newt Gingrich, Dennis Kucinich Impeachment, Exxon Valdez, Torture, Afghanistan War, Media News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

Investigation confirms torture at U.S. bases in Afghanistan, Michael Reagan calls for murder of anti-war activists, Gingrich claims Supreme Court decision will "cost us a city" and $23 billion in lost Iraq funds.

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The F Word: Shelling Out for Shell

Laura Flanders | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Total, Bp, Exxon Mobil, Iraq, Oil, Shell Oil, Grittv, Flanders, Politics News
Laura Flanders

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!

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Why Doesn't the Press Ever Talk About the Oil?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Government Proaganda, Mainstream Media, Oil, Exxon-Mobil, No-Bid Contracts, Press, Iraq War, Media News
Cenk Uygur

Today, the four major American oil companies, thrown out by Saddam Hussein 36 years ago, came back into Iraq by getting... you guessed it... no-bid contracts!

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Supreme Court Justices John Roberts And Samuel Alito Sell Stocks To Reduce Conflicts Of Interest

CNNMoney.com | Posted 06.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Supreme Court Conflict of Interest, Supreme Court, Samuel Alito, John Roberts, Samuel Alito Exxon, Exxon Mobil, Business News

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, whose investments forced them to sit out cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, ...

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Republicans Block Oil Windfall Tax

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.10.2008 | Green

Read More: John McCain, Mitch McConnell, The Environmentalist, Politics, Exxon Mobil, Danny Schechter, Congress, Green, General Election, Big Oil Profits, Business, Charles Schumer, Barack Obama, Windfall Profits Tax, Big Oil, Environment, Barack Obama 2008, Pete Domenici, John McCain 2008, Obama General Election, Henry Paulson, Byron Dorgan, Jim Wilkinson, Green News
Janet Ritz

Wilkinson's self-serving act has set off a world-wide frenzy of speculation, particulary oil speculation, with traders in London and Dubai holding onto their oil stocks in order to obtain a better price in Euros than they can now achieve with dollars. That, in turn, plays into the hands of oil producing nations who may have reasons not to like America (i.e. Iran, Venezuela...) to insist on petrol-Euros for their product, further depressing the dollar world-wide.

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Oil Crisis: Your Primer on the Great "Peak Oil" v "Speculators" Debate

Henry Blodget | Posted 06.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil, Oil Prices, Peak Oil, Exxon Mobil, Business News
Henry Blodget

Who's right? The truth is no one knows (and anyone who confidently asserts that they do is fooling themselves).

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Why Is There No National Energy Policy?

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gas Prices, Clinton Gas Tax, Joseph Stiglitz, Gas Tax, Exxon Mobil, Environment, Environmentalism, Obama Gas Tax, Gas Tax Holiday, McCain Gas Tax, Energy Policy, Politics News
Patrick Takahashi

National energy policy? Why bother? A dollar/gallon investment tax on gasoline, the 10% solution and a 10 cents / pound carbon dioxide tax are all we need.

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Why the Exxon Directors Need to Exxit, Fast

Stefan Roberts | Posted 05.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Al Gore Global Warming, Lee Raymond, Exxon Mobil, Environment, Environmentalism, An Inconvenient Truth, Business News
Stefan Roberts

Through all Exxon Mobil's announcements and past public statements about their intentions and hopes, they continue to pursue policies that damage our environment and kill our planet.

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Exxon Chief Beats Back Challenge From Rockefellers

New York Times | Clifford Krauss | Posted 05.28.2008 | Business

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Exxon Mobil's chairman and chief executive, Rex W. Tillerson, defeated a shareholder effort on Wednesday to take away one of his jobs at an annual mee...

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Rockefellers, Exxon Mobil Battle Over Future Of Company

New York Times | CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 05.26.2008 | Business

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The Rockefeller family built one of the great American fortunes by supplying the nation with oil. Now history has come full circle: some family member...

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Awash In Profits, Exxon Extracting Every Penny From Its Franchisees

Washington Post | Steven Mufson | Posted 05.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Gas Prices, Exxon, Exxon Mobil, Exxon Profits, Gas Stations, Exxon Franchise, Business News

Every time Sohaila Rezazadeh rings up a sale at her Exxon station on Chain Bridge Road in Oakton, her cash register sends the information to Exxon Mob...

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Oil Execs to Congress: I Drink Your Milkshake

Chris Kelly | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil Prices, Oil Executives, Oil Companies, Bp, Economics, Big Oil, Exxon Mobil, Oil, Polar Bears, Free Market, Shell Oil, Politics News
Chris Kelly

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.

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Future Will Battle Past at Exxon Mobil Annual Meeting

Clint Wilder | Posted 05.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, Exxon Mobil, Green, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, John Rockefeller, Wal-Mart, Dallas, Global Warming, Business News
Clint Wilder

The Rockefellers haven't suddenly gone soft and hippy-dippy. It's their concern for the future of the Exxon Mobil's bottom line that's fueling their calls for a cleaner, more renewable energy mix.

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Gas Prices, Persian Gulf, Right Wing Media, Oil Sands, Renewable Energy, Neal Boortz, Depleted Uranium, Dick Cheney, Tar Sands, Dan Abrams, Environmental Protection Agency, Solar Tax Credits, Oil Industry, Richard Nixon, Dow Chemical, Guantanamo Torture, Michael Savage, John Ashcroft, Mary Gade, Chevron, Dioxin, Solar Power, Thomas Friedman, Tavis Smiley, John Conyers, Karl Rove, Bp, Rush Limbaugh, Exxon Mobil, Mother Jones, Green Building, Lou Dobbs, Iraq Contractors, Co2, John Yoo, Iraqi Interpreters, Shell Oil, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Whistleblowers, Talk Radio, Kbr, Media Consolidation, Don Siegelman, 60 Minutes, Sean Hannity, Conocophillips, Ducks, Fox News, Clean Technology, Glenn Beck, Bush Approval Rating, Bill O'Reilly, Media News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

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.

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Exxon Mobil Earnings Disappoint -- Pity Poor Exxon

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Federal Gas Tax, Integrated Oil Companies, Oil Reporting, Reuters, Exxon Mobil, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Striking the federal gas tax over the summer is a band-aid. Breaking up the integrated oil companies would be a real beginning toward getting the hegemony of the oilogopoly off our backs.

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