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Citi Closing Mastercards Without Warning

msn.com | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Citi, Phillips Conoco, Exxon Mobile, Credit CARD Act, Exxonmobil, L Mastercard, Gas Cards, Citbank, Master Card, Credit Cards, Shell, Citgo, Shell Oil, Banks, Business News

AP - NEW YORK - Shannon Burdette tried to pay with her Shell Mastercard after filling up her gas tank this weekend but found the card rejected. Confu...

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The Yes Men Hoax is Nothing Compared to the 20-Year Hoax by Fossil Fuel Companies

Kevin Grandia | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Climate-Cover-Up, Environment, Exxonmobil, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, Global Warming, James Hoggan, Tassc, Green News

With a clean energy bill making its way through the Senate and the upcoming international summit on climate change in Copenhagen, you can bet the PR spin from industry and think tanks is only going to get louder.

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Necessary But Not Sufficient: Congress' Climate Bill

Anne Butterfield | Posted 10.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Climate Change, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Clean Air Act, Climate Bill, Epa, Carbon Tax, Global Warming, Exxonmobil, Denver News

The planet's survival relies partly on a climate bill but mostly on continued grassroots assault on coal plants and other offenders, plus disruptive clean technologies to take our markets by storm.

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Too High a Price for High Octane

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

The refineries in this country still using unnecessarily hazardous hydrofluoric acid must ensure their workers and the residents of their neighborhoods live to see Labor Day 2010.

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Is ExxonMobil Really the "Green Company of the Year"?

James Hoggan | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Sustainability, Forbes, Global Warming, Climate Change, Exxonmobil, Xom, Green News

As the most profitable company in the history of companies, Exxon is in a position to do a huge amount of good -- or to continue doing a huge, huge amount of damage.

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Oil and Coal Companies to Begin Huge Scuba Giveaway

Jerry Cope | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Marsh-Fork-Elementary, Rising Sea Level, Mountaintop Removal, Massey Energy, Climate Change, Exxon, Daryl Hannah, James Hansen, Coal, Humanitarian Aid, Global Warming, Tuvalu, cop15, Exxonmobil, Satire, Green News

After years of climate change denial, a consortium of energy industry giants led by ExxonMobil and Massey Energy are launching a global campaign to provide island nations with equipment to combat rising sea levels.

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Weekly Mulch: Market-Driven Sustainability

The Media Consortium | Posted 08.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Mulch, Sojourners, The American Prospect, Mother Jones, Greenwashing, Exxonmobil, Sustainability, Tmc, Aaa, Grist, Salon, Wal-Mart, Green News

Last week, Wal-Mart, ExxonMobil and AAA announced new programs that promote sustainability and a cleaner planet. Are their efforts actually a case of corporate greenwashing?

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First in Profits, Second in What?

James K. Boyce and Manuel Pastor | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Toxic 100, Exxonmobil, Environmentalism, Emissions, Green Business, Exxon Mobil Profits, Exxon Mobil, Green News

ExxonMobil just had another banner year. Despite the global economic slowdown, the oil company now tops the Fortune 500 in both profits and sales. It's also ninth in a less salubrious list -- the "Toxic 100."

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Exxon Responds to Avaaz Spoof Ad: "We Don't Understand"

Ben Wikler | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Avaaz, Carbon Emissions, Advertising, Fossil Fuels, Climate, Exxon Mobil, Exxonmobil, Exxon, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Advocacy, Climate Bill, Green News

While ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies now talk a good game on climate change, they're still lobbying full-force to prevent a strong global climate treaty.

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Earth Day Atonement: 10 Environmental Disasters to Remember

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Ten tragic lessons in our nation's environmental history that should never be forgotten. And one climate destabilization tragedy in the making that needs our urgent help.

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President Obama's Pledge to End "The Tyranny Of Oil"; "Peak Oil" Mutating to "Peak Consumption"

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy, Norway's National Oil Trust, Gasoline Consumption, Lee Raymond, World Oil Demand, Biofuels, Exxonmobil, Norway, Wall Street Journal, National Oil Trust, Peak Oil, Peak Consumption, Oil, Petroleum Based Fuels, Nuclear Power, Obama Oil, Barack Obama, Ethanol, Business News

A multiplicity of factors are in play that for the first time will begin to end the oil cabal's long and painful hegemony over our lives.

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Exxon Aims For Big Role In Iraq's Oil Sector

Reuters | Luke Pachymuthu | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Iraq Exxonmobil, Warwire, Iraq Oil Exxonmobil, Iraq Oil, War Wire, Exxonmobil, Oil, Iraq Oil Exxon, Exxon, Iraq, Iraq Exxon, Business News

Exxon Mobil Corp is in constant dialogue with Baghdad to create the investment climate that would allow it to become a significant player in Iraq's en...

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"Exxon Profit Down 33% in the Fourth Quarter": Please Pity Poor Exxon!

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 03.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Bush Administration, Royal Dutch Shell, George W. Bush, Exxon Mobil, American Petroleum Institute, Opec, Bush Administration Oil, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Oil Profits, Exxon Profits, Davos Oil, Davos, Oil Prices, Exxonmobil, Exxon, Bush Pol, Business News

How many Americans would have a little more in their savings accounts to see them through tough times if some new alibi didn't enshrine each new high in the price of oil?

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Your TARP Money is Being Used to Prop Up the Price of Oil

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Morgan Stanley, Bush Administration, Exxonmobil, Oil, Oil Prices, Bloomberg, Bankers, Obama Administration, Supertanker, TARP Money, Obama TARP, Obama, Business News

No, it's not about your local gas station not getting a loan from its bank to keep it in business. It is far more insidious. It's about hundreds of millions of TARP dollars being spent on oil speculation.

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At the Pump: Down with Gas!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Auto Companies, Economic Slowdown, Chrysler, Car Companies, Gas Prices, Bailout, General Motors, Economic Crisis, Economy, Exxonmobil, Ford, Oil Prices, Henry Paulson, Congress, Oil Companies, Business News

Gas prices are down -- it's party time! All it takes is a hearty appetite, and a good-old-American willingness to forget that the rest of the storm is still headed our way.

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Detroit's Rebirth as the "Arsenal for America's Future"

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 12.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Fireside Chats, CEO Tillerson, Nazi Germany, Electric Cars, Exxonmobil, Detroit, Israel, New York Times, Franklin Roosevelt, Green Energy, Denmark, Arsenal of Democracy, Greatest Generation, American Auto Industry, Renaultnissan, Automakers, Auto Industry, Cars, Business News

What a boon it would be to have a renaissance of our historic "Detroit Arsenal," with our government and the automobile industry working together once again on a program critical to the nation's well-being.

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"Fisherma'am" Proposes 28th Amendment: Separation Of Corporation And State

Chelsea Green | Posted 12.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Video, Corporations, 28th Amendment, ExxonMobil Profits, Corporate Greed, Oil, Exxonmobil, Exxon, Oil Profits, Corporatocracy, Exxon Valdez, Dr. Riki Ott, Green News

Every so often an idea comes along that rings with such clarity and purpose that it ignites the imaginations of millions of people. That spark of exci...

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The Bush Years' Single Accomplishment: Exxon Mobil's Staggering Record Profit

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 12.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Dept of Energy, Wall Street, Saudi Arabia, Exxonmobil, Cheney, Oil, Strategic Petroleum Reseve, Oil-Patch, Dept of Interior, King Fahd, Opec, Business News

In breathtaking example of the manner in which oil has corrupted the Bush administration we have prima facie evidence of the perverted priorities of the last eight years.

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ExxonMobil Posts Biggest Quarterly US Profit In History

AP | Posted 11.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil, Oil Prices, Oil Profits, Exxonmobil, Exxon, ExxonMobil Profits, Record-Breaking Oil Profits, Business News

HOUSTON - Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, says it shattered its own record for the biggest profit from operations ...

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When Harm Goes Unpunished: Why Congress Should Overturn the Supreme Court's Exxon Valdez Decision

Riki Ott | Posted 07.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, Exxon, Oil Spill, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Not One Drop, Cordova, Chelsea Green, Exxonmobil, Riki Ott, Supreme Court, Alaska, ExxonMobil Corporation, Fishermen, Environment, Green News

No community should have to go through what we have been through. Livelihoods have been lost, financial stress has broken families apart, and businesses supported by fishermen have crumbled.

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How McCain and Crist Help Big Oil Change the Subject

Alan Fein | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Energy, Oil Drilling Moratorium, Charlie Crist, Oil Drilling, John McCain, Florida Oil Drilling, Big Oil, Oil, Oil Prices, Exxonmobil, Exxon, Business News

With more concentration of market power in the oil industry, more manipulation of supply, and more profiteering in the absence of competition, the drilling debate is just an attempt to change the subject.

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Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near on Global Warming

Dr. James Hansen | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Carbon, Warming, Carbon Tax, Fossil Fuels, Dr. James Hansen, Exxonmobil, Global Warming Skepticism, Global Warming, Green News

Yesterday, I testified to Congress about global warming, 20 years after I first alerted the public that warming was underway. There are striking similarities between then and now, but one big difference.

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Exxon Skimps On Oil Production To Boost Profits

BusinessWeek Via MSN | Posted 03.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Production, Exxon, Energy Companies, Weak Economy, Crude Oil Prices, Exxonmobil, Business News

Reports of slackening demand sent oil down another 2.5% on Thursday to $101.84 per barrel. Crude prices have declined 7.6% since the beginning of the ...

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Chief Justice Roberts Defends ExxonMobil

Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts, Exxon Valdez Spill, Exxon, Exxonmobil, Jeffrey Fisher, John Roberts, Exxon Valdez, Business News

Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on how much money ExxonMobil should be forced to pay as damages for its Exxon Valdez oil spill 19 ye...

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Pirates Attack Exxon Vessel In Nigeria

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Niger Delta, Modern Day Pirates, Pirates, Nigeria, Southern Nigeria, Exxonmobil, Business News

Pirates attacked a vessel operated by oil major ExxonMobil in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria on Tuesday, killing a crew member and injuring anoth...

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