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Everything They Do, You Do

Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 12.31.2009 | Impact

Read More: Starbucks, Aig, McDonald's, Capitalism, Starbucks Cups, Exxon Mobil, Conservation International, Impact News

I went to Starbucks and on the back of my cup it said, "Everything we do, you do." It's a nice thought, but it works the other way as well. What if McDonald's, Exxon Mobil, or AIG had "Everything we do, you do" as their slogan?

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Exxon Reserves Right To Back Out Of Gas Deal If FRAC Act Passes

Reuters | Posted 12.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: FRAC Act, Diana DeGette, Exxon Mobil, Denver News

Exxon would be able to walk away from the deal if U.S. lawmakers make hydraulic fracturing "illegal" or "commercially impracticable," according to the...

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ExxonMobil-XTO Energy Deal Seen As A Harbinger Of Good Times For Struggling Western Slope

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | DENNIS WEBB | Posted 12.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: San Juan Basin, Western Slope Natural Gas, Colorado Natural Gas, Xto Energy, Piceance Basin, Exxon Mobil, Denver News

In a move seen as a vote of confidence in the future of America's natural gas industry, ExxonMobil said Monday it plans to acquire XTO Energy Inc. in ...

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Exxon Mobil Strikes Deal With XTO Energy For $31 Billion

AP | MARK WILLIAMS | Posted 12.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy, Mergers and Acquisitions, Gas, Exxon, Acquisition, Exxon Mobil, Xto Energy, Business News

Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, is making a $29 billion bet that pressure to curb climate change will mean natural gas &...

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XTO Energy, Exxon Deal: Learn More About XTO Energy

Posted 12.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy, Exxon, Gas, Mergers, Business, Acquisition, Exxon Mobil, Exxon Xto, Xto Energy, Business News

XTO Energy, a natural gas producer, is expected to be purchased by Exxon Mobil for $31 billion in stock and the assumption of $10 billion in debt, the...

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Anatomy of the Tea Party Movement: Americans for Prosperity

Alex Brant-Zawadzki | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tim Phillips, David Koch, Freedomworks, Rachel Maddow, Americans for Prosperity, Tax Day Tea Parties, Exxon Mobil, Joe the Plumber, Koch Industries, Teaparty, Politics News

Americans for Prosperity engages in dirtier, noisier tricks than its sibling FreedomWorks, so much so that Rachel Maddow called Americans for Prosperity "a parasite that gets fat on Americans' fears."

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Where Is The Fossil-Fuel Industry In Copenhagen?

Grist | Jonathan Hiskes | Posted 12.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen 2009, Fossil Fuels, Exxon Mobil, Green News, Green, Environment, Climate Change, Grist, Global Warming, Green News

Just past the security gates and the main entrance to the Bella Center, the site of the Copenhagen climate change conference, attendees must pass thro...

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Group Promoting Climate Skepticism Is Extensively Linked to Exxon

Posted 12.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Exxon, Climate Change, Ipcc, Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, Nipcc, Exxon Mobil, Climate Deniers, Green News

The following article was produced by the Raw Story and written by Sahil Kapur A group promoting skepticism over widely-accredited climate change sci...

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The US Chamber of Commerce Is Killing the Copenhagen Climate Treaty

James Hoggan | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has already done everything it can to kill the chances of a legally binding agreement emerging from the Copenhagen climate change summit.

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Fossil Fuel Companies Block Climate Treaty

John Passacantando | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Copenhagen 2009, US Chamber of Commerce, Exxon Mobil, President Obama, Green News

Missing from the mainstream media reports of the climate bill opposition are the actual names of the accomplices, who rarely get identified due to their heavy advertising budgets in some of the same publications.

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Bush Oil Buddies Divvy Up Iraqi Oil, Now Joined By "Liberal Scion" Peter Galbraith

Jackson Williams | Posted 12.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Age of Turbulence, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, Kurdistan, Exxon-Mobil, Iraq, Joe Biden, Osama Bin Laden, Ray Hunt, Hunt Oil, Kuwait, John Kerry, Kurds, Desert Storm, Oil, New York Times, Afghanistan, Iraqi Oil, Alan Greenspan, Peter Galbraith, Politics News

Peter Galbraith, son of the famed economist, is in line to reap $100 million dollars -- maybe more -- from contracts between a Norwegian oil company and the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.

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Exxon Mobil Contaminated Drinking Water Wtih Gasoline Additive, Owes NYC $105 Million: Jury

AP | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York

Read More: Water Contamination, Gas Companies, Queens, Exxon Mobil, Exxon, Groundwater, Exxon Mobil Drinking Water, Gasoline Additive, Exxon Mobil Liable, Drinking Water, New York City, New York News

NEW YORK — A jury has found Exxon Mobil liable for contaminating New York City's groundwater with a gasoline additive and has awarded the city $...

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Beware the Sirens of Big Oil

Riki Ott | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Alaska-Drilling, Big Oil Profits, Big Oil, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Exxon Valdez, Exxon Mobil, Green News

My advice to coastal residents in the Lower 48: Take heed. We learned the hard way that Big Oil's promises were good only until authorizing laws were passed and permits approved.

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Why Is CBS Lying About Climate Change?

James Boyce | Posted 11.16.2009 | Media

Read More: CBS News, Clean Energy, Barack Obama, Exxon Mobil, Obama Administration, Declan McCullagh, Cbs, Wonk Room, Global Warming, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Media News

A CBS News correspondent who can't get his own title right makes up a number in a memo given to him by a group funded by ExxonMobil, and CBS News is wondering where the viewers are going.

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Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell To Develop World's Largest Gas Field

AP | ROD McGUIRK | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Gorgon, Australia, Exxon Mobil, Oil, Chevron, Shell, Natural Gas, Green News

CANBERRA, Australia — Energy giant Chevron announced on Monday that the Gorgon gas field, one of the world's largest, will be developed off nort...

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Lobbying The September 11 Day Of Service

Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Dave Levinthal, Congress, Lobbying, Sept. 11, Exxon Mobil, Habitat for Humanity, Planned Parenthood, Lobbyblog, Transparency, Business News

Dave Levinthal at the Center for Responsive Politics reminds us this morning that nothing in Congress goes unlobbied. The Edward M. Kennedy Serve Amer...

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Exxon is Green? CFL's "Probably" Reduce Energy Use?

Andrew Winston | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home

Read More: LED Lights, Exxon Mobil, Lee Scott, Forbes Magazine, Green Business, Newspaper Op-Eds, Cfls, Wall Street Journal, Wal-Mart, Jeff Immelt, Ge, Home News

There's a rise in ridiculous cover stories and op-eds in the green world.

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The Human Element: Is Your Internship Program Helping or Hurting?

Jon Younger | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Jobs, Internships, Employees, Business, Recruiting, Management, Talent, Talent Pools, Strong Internship Programs, Ge, Internship Programs, Exxon Mobil, Enhancing Your Talent Pool, Interns, Business News

A strong internship program is a powerful tool for attracting top talent; companies can build a strong relationship with schools or other talent pools. But they can also be a reputational WMD.

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ExxonMobil Pleads Guilty To Killing Birds

AP | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Birds, Exxon Mobil, Exxon, Animals, Exxon Mobil Bird Killing, Green News

WASHINGTON — Exxon Mobil Corp. pleaded guilty to killing migratory birds in five states, and will pay about $7,000 for each bird killed, Justice...

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A Penny From Heaven

Dan Dorfman | Posted 09.12.2009 | New York

Penny Trenk recently pulled off the kind of financial feat that one might associate with the likes of investment whiz Warren Buffet. In sports, her feat would be like running a 4-minute mile.

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Townhall Mobs -- Brought to You by Big Oil and Dirty Coal

Josh Dorner | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green

There's considerable evidence that these astroturf corporate lobbying operations are also trying to derail clean energy jobs legislation.

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Green News Report - August 4, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.04.2009 | Green

Now available on Apple iTunes! Subscribe for FREE here!... IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: The Democracy of Lobbyists; The forgeries of 'Clean Coal'... PLU...

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Exxon Mobil 2Q Profit Falls 66%, Biggest Drop In Six Years

AP | JOHN PORRETTO | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Exxon Stock Price, Gas Companies, Oil Companies, Exxon Mobil, Business News

Exxon Mobil Corp. on Thursday reported its lowest profit in nearly six years, a 66 percent plunge from the second quarter a year ago as the world's bi...

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The Yes Men Fix The World One Prank at a Time

Liza Weisberg | Posted 08.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bhopal, Andy Bichlbaum, Biofuels, Halliburton, Dow Chemical, Hbo, Mike Bonanno, Exxon Mobil, HBO Documentaries, Free Market, Corporate Greed, The Yes Men, The Yes Men Fix the World, Pranks, Entertainment News

In their new HBO documentary The Yes Men Fix the World, the eponymous pranksters take aim at unapologetic free market profiteers.

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Third Screen: How Now Dow... Chemical?

Vickie Karp | Posted 08.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hbo, Politics, The Yes Men, Andy Bichlbaum, Kurt Engfehr, Bowling for Columbine, Environment, Michael Moore, Michael Bonanno, Bbc, Exxon Mobil, The Yes Men Fix the World, World Trade Organization, Halliburton, New York Times, Entertainment News

Corporations don't always do what's right. Maybe they can't. Maybe they don't want to. Maybe they want to but the shareholders wouldn't like it. Cue: The Yes Men.

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