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A Mandate for Spreading the Wealth

Norman Solomon | Posted 12.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Progressive Income Tax, Joe the Plumber, John McCain, New Deal, Economy, Spread the Wealth Around, Exxon Mobil, Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Income Inequality, Business News
Norman Solomon

Barack Obama won the presidency after clearly saying that he wants to spread the wealth. Let's make him do it.

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Barack Obama Needs to Stop Exxon, Before They Kill Us All

Stefan Roberts | Posted 12.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil, Exxon Profits, Special Interests, Oil Companies, Lobbyists, Barack Obama, Exxon Mobil, Green News
Stefan Roberts

What really horrifies me about ExxonMobil's record-breaking profits this quarter is not how big they are, but that the money they earn is then used by their executives to lobby congress.

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A State of Disenchantment

Javier Sierra | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Latinos, Wind Power, Los Alamos, Nuclear Waste, Renewable Electricity Standard, Mccain, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Nuclear Power, Exxon Mobil, Renewable Energy, Hispanic Heritage, Nuclear Waste New Mexico, Hispanics, Nuclear, Albuquerque, Radioactive Waste, Renewable, Environment, Chevron, Carlsbad, Solar Power, Green News
Javier Sierra

Because of its extraordinary number of sun hours per year and its predominant winds, New Mexico could be turned into an El Dorado of clean, alternative, renewable energy.

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Iraq's Oil Up For Grabs Today In Biggest Oil Sale Ever

The Guardian | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Bp, Exxon Mobil, War Wire, Oil, Oil Prices, Iraq, Shell, London, Business News

The biggest ever sale of oil assets will take place today, when the Iraqi government puts 40bn barrels of recoverable reserves up for offer in London....

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Not All Lobbyists Are Created Equal: The Current Energy Bills

Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Gas Prices, Big Oil, Energy Bill, Oil Shale, Global Warming Pollution, Big Oil Profits, Global Warming, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, Shareholders, NDRC, Lobbyists, Exxon Mobil, Nonprofits, Environmental Advocate, Pet Legislation, Green News
Frances Beinecke

I am an environmental advocate. Sometimes I travel to D.C. to lobby on behalf of issues NRDC cares about. Big Oil companies dispatch lobbyists to the Hill as well. Does that make us equals?

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Who's Getting The Oil Industry's Support? Obama Favored By Exxon Employees, McCain Raised More Oil Money

Kate Sheppard | Posted 09.11.2008 | Green

Read More: John McCain, Exxon-McCain 2008, Oil Industry, Obama Oil Industry, Exxon Oil, Exxon Mobil, Green, Green News, Oil Prices, Oil, Mccain Oil Industry, Barack Obama, Green News
Kate Sheppard

While McCain has brought in three times more money from the oil and gas industry, Obama is the favored candidate of executives from several of the biggest companies, including ExxonMobil, according to reports from Federal Election Commission as of July 29, 2008.

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Connect the Dots: See the Real Costs of Our Oil Dependency, More Oil is Not the Answer

Riki Ott | Posted 09.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil, Supreme Court, Oil Spill, Exxon Valdez, Exxon Mobil, Green News
Riki Ott

Cordova, Alaska. The other night I biked over to the home of Linden and Kevin "Sam" O'Toole to watch the CNN Anderson Cooper 360º story on the Exxon ...

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Red Ink/Black Ink

Eric Williams | Posted 09.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Cell Phones, Gas Prices, General Motors, Economy, Exxon Mobil, Business News
Eric Williams

It's clear that the real money is in oil rather than automobiles, so isn't the obvious solution for General Motors to merge with Exxon Mobil and for this new entity -- let's call them GenExx MoMo -- to give away cars for free?

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Sierra Club RAW: John McCain, Big Oil's Bestie as Record Profits (and Campaign Cash) Roll In

Josh Dorner | Posted 08.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Energy, Gas Prices, John McCain, Big Oil, Exxon Mobil, Oil Profits, Obama, Sierra Club, Business News
Josh Dorner

After hitting a real gusher of campaign cash from Big Oil, what does McCain propose to do about high gas prices and obscene oil company profits? Why, he wants to give Big Oil a Texas-sized tax cut.

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Bipartisan Support for our Children -- It Has Happened!

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 08.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Law, Children, Health, George W. Bush, Exxon Mobil, Cpsc, Environment, Lead Paint Toys, Regulation, Green Living, Bipartisanship, Chemicals, Toxic Toys, Phthalates, Green News
Christopher Gavigan

The final day of July 2008 may go down in history as the moment the tides of democracy shifted away from corporate cronyism and back to the people.

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The "Have-Oil" and the "Have-Nots"

Jamal Dajani | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil, Oil Prices, Iran, Qatar, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Lamborghini, Dubai, Exxon Mobil, Politics News
Jamal Dajani

Skyrocketing oil and natural gas prices in the second quarter of this year led ExxonMobil to report the highest profit ever by an American company. I...

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GOP Follows the Money... All the Way to Big Oil

Matthew Miller | Posted 08.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Senate, Dscc, Big Oil, Oil Companies, Republicans, Exxon Mobil, Oil, Exxon, Exxon Profits, Business News
Matthew Miller

Big Oil makes record profits, and in turn, sends millions more back into Republican campaigns. Everyone wins except for average Americans who find themselves paying record high gas prices.

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Sierra Club RAW: McCain's Greatest Energy Misses Summer Tour

Josh Dorner | Posted 08.05.2008 | Green

Read More: John McCain, Big Oil, Sierra Club, Exxon Mobil, Offshore Drilling, Green News
Josh Dorner

Since McCain has already taken his misbegotten road show to the sites of some our nation's greatest energy misses, we wonder if maybe next he'll stop by Three Mile Island?

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

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 08.02.2008 | 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 08.01.2008 | 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 07.31.2008 | 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 07.31.2008 | 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 07.22.2008 | 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 07.18.2008 | 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 07.04.2008 | 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 07.03.2008 | 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 07.03.2008 | 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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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 06.28.2008 | 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 06.28.2008 | 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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Supreme Court Justices John Roberts And Samuel Alito Sell Stocks To Reduce Conflicts Of Interest

CNNMoney.com | Posted 06.18.2008 | 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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