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'Green News Report' - April 26, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.26.2012 | Green
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Just a fl...

Pain at the Pump: Time to Embrace the New Normal

Kelly Rigg | Posted 05.26.2012 | Green
Kelly Rigg

The fact is Americans pay less for gasoline than virtually any other OECD country, while Europeans generally pay amongst the highest prices in the world -- not just amongst OECD countries but amongst all countries.

Where Is Obama's Windfall Profits Tax On the Oil and Gas Industry?

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 04.17.2012 | Politics
Lloyd Chapman

The promise was displayed prominently at the top of the "economy" section of Obama's campaign website. However, the language regarding the windfall profits tax vanished in an unceremonious and abrupt manner.

A Smart Way to Start Rebuilding America

Carl Pope | Posted 01.04.2012 | Green
Carl Pope

There really is no shortage of ways to fund our transportation infrastructure -- if the oil industry and foreign oil producers pay their fair share.

Michael McAuliff

Oil Bash: Dems Hit GOP Again For Guarding Record Profits, Tax Breaks

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.27.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Democrats' Senate campaign committee is making good Thursday on its promise to try to tar several GOP contenders with their votes pr...

Big Oil's Gain is Our Pain

Alan Fein | Posted 07.26.2011 | Business
Alan Fein

American corporations, including Big Oil, don't need more tax breaks to "create jobs." It's time we call Big Oil and the Republican Tea Party on their nonsense.

Nation's Third-Largest Oil Company Will Split In Two

Posted 09.13.2011 | Business

(AP) NEW YORK -- ConocoPhillips, the nation's third-largest oil company, said Thursday that it will split itself into two separate publicly traded com...

Exxon's Bottom Line Greatly Benefits From Rising Oil Prices

Posted 06.28.2011 | Business

Exxon Mobil Corp's quarterly profit rose a better-than-expected 69 percent as the world's largest publicly traded oil company benefited from highe...

Michael McAuliff

It's A R-Oil Wedding For GOP And Petroleum Industry, Dems Charge (UPDATE)

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 06.28.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Democrats are taking a cheeky shot at Republicans pegged to the pending regal nuptials in England, popping up a new website that dubs th...

BP Oil Spill

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jeff Danziger

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Oil Execs Called To Testify Before Congress On Gulf Coast Spill, Consumer Pricing

Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming has called the chief executives of America's top five oil companies to testify on...

BP, (Foul) Flavor Of The Month

Stephen Herrington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Stephen Herrington

It might be more appropriate to treat mega companies as hostile nations rather than as peers of a mom and pop drive-in theater chain in Texas.

Chevron Seeks Money from Wounded and Tortured Protesters

David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
David Weiner

Just what is Chevron trying to prove with these actions? Do they really need the money, which includes $190,000 in photocopying charges, and that accounts for less than a rounding error for the company?

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

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Raymond J. Learsy

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?

Bush By The Numbers: Harper's Index Says Goodbye

Harpers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Number of news stories from 1998 to Election Day 2000 containing "George W. Bush" and "aura of inevitability": 206 Amount for which Bush successful...

Venezuela's Oil Income 225 Percent Higher In Early 2008

AP | RACHEL JONES | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

CARACAS, Venezuela — Record prices boosted Venezuela's oil income by 225 percent in the first nine months of 2008, allowing the state-run oil co...

Obama And Oil Companies: Did The President-Elect Just Break His First Campaign Promise?

Mother Jones | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Did Barack Obama just break his first campaign promise? On the campaign trail, Obama railed against big oil companies. He often criticized John McC...

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

Chelsea Green | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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...

Shell Profits Rise 22 Percent

AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Europe's largest oil company, Thursday reported a 22 percent jump in net profit for the third qu...

ExxonMobil Posts Biggest Quarterly US Profit In History

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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

Oil Business Not So Bad: BP Posts 83 Percent Profit Growth

AP | EMILY FLYNN VENCAT | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

LONDON — British oil company BP PLC reported a huge 83-percent rise in third-quarter net profit Tuesday on the back of surging energy prices bet...

Project FREE: The Next Apollo Program Both Candidates Should Embrace

Eric Greenberg and Karl Weber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Eric Greenberg and Karl Weber

The next administration should implement a massive national program to innovate the next generation of carbon-emission-free energy based on hydrogen, fusion, or other technologies.

The October Surprise Shouldn't Come as One

Trey Ellis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Trey Ellis

What will it be? A nod to Israel to bomb Iran? An American-engineered coup in Pakistan? Whatever it is, it is coming and if Obama intends to weather the dirty trick he will have to be prepared.

More US Oil Drilling: A Boom for Big Oil, A Bust for Consumers

Mark Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Mark Cooper

More domestic drilling means more product for oil companies to sell at the high world market price. The consumer doesn't see a cent, while oil companies rake in even more cash.

Big Oil Big on Profits, Small on American Values

Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Alan Rosenblatt

Until oil companies start acting like they are on the American team and help us reduce ALL oil consumption, I will be glad we have lots of grassroots advocacy campaigns to keep the pressure on them.