Shell Wins Rights To Iraq's Giant Manjoon Oil Fields
BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials cheered and clapped as the first oil field up for bid went to a major international consortium at the opening of the c...
BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials cheered and clapped as the first oil field up for bid went to a major international consortium at the opening of the c...
Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business
There are many in the corporate realm who "get it" -- that's why they're finding new and innovative ways to combat climate change.
msn.com | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
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...
AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 10.20.2009 | Denver
SALT LAKE CITY — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called Tuesday for an investigation into last-minute changes made by the administration of Presi...
latimes.com | Jim Tankersley and Josh Meyer | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver
Reporting from Washington - The Obama Interior Department is reviewing a decision made by the Bush administration in its final days that attempted to...
The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 11.29.2009 | Denver
A Colorado U.S. District Court judge has granted an extension until Nov. 16 for federal government attorneys trying to reach a settlement with environ...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
By blocking any new revenue streams to fund higher education, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Senate Republican minority are not only taxing California's young people and their families, they are crippling the state's future.
Carl Pope | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green
Powerful, wealthy global oil companies routinely partner with repressive or corrupt regimes, and then blame the local government or its local partners.
Stephen Kretzmann | Posted 07.11.2009 | World
Is $15.5 million is enough to compensate for the hanging of nine men, the death of thousands more, and for the destruction of an ecosystem?
Amy Goodman | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
Ken Saro-Wiwa's family and others just won a landmark settlement in U.S. federal court, ending a 13-year battle with Shell Oil. Alberto Pizango's ordeal is just beginning.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Protesting in Peru; Settling with Shell; Pollution solutions in Long Beach; PLUS: Republicans vow to block climate legislati...
Stephen Kretzmann | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green
Nigeria's Government is failing its people, but it is also important to ask why Shell continues to operate in an area where the price of its oil operations is so tragically high.
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green
More dispatches from Huffington Post Green editor Dave Burdick. In this week's video: The Sunseeker II solar plane video Conversation at HuffPost G...
Janet Ranganathan | Posted 06.27.2009 | Green
In true Darwinian fashion, the most successful extractive companies are adapting to forces of change by investing in improvements to their environmental and social management systems.
Han Shan | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
Multinational oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has done everything in its power to stop a trial that would require them to answer to charges of human rights abuses.
Terra Lawson-Remer | Posted 06.24.2009 | World
The most common modern pirates are multinational corporations operating beyond the rule of law. The U.S. can and should take firm measures against this kind of piracy, just as we have against the Somali pirates.
Steve Parker | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business
Is there a White House technology double-standard, is it Obama-ish realism or are oil companies lobbying as they must to keep their black gold from turning into clean, abundant hydrogen?
Trip Van Noppen | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green
Here's what the President and Sec. Salazar can do to make a decisive break from the "drill here, drill now" policies of the Bush administration and show Americans a new day has dawned in the Arctic.
Han Shan | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
The effort to hold Shell accountable has been a true David & Goliath struggle, with impoverished Nigerian villagers and their scrappy human rights attorneys facing down a multinational oil giant.
Starre Vartan | Posted 06.17.2009 | Green
Turns out there's a significant difference in how environmentally-friendly (or not) the oil companies are, and why shouldn't that info impact my decision about where to spend my money.
Stefan Deeran | Posted 01.15.2009 | Green
A recent corporate social responsibility (CSR) ranking in Fortune magazine reveals one of the many inherent flaws in this burgeoning practice.
Chicago Tribune | Eric Zorn | Posted 01.02.2009 | Chicago
I set out Monday to solve the great gas-price mystery on the Northwest Side. Since the middle of the summer, those who've driven through the intersec...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home
A dozen fresh red roses cradled in baby's breath sit on the console of the shrimper "Queen Mary" as she prepares to cast off from the Morgan City D...
Financial Times | Ed Crooks and Roula Khalaf | Posted 10.10.2008 | Business
Royal Dutch Shell is to become the first western oil company to sign a deal with the Iraqi government since the US-led invasion of 2003, agreeing a pl...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.21.2008 | Green
Meanwhile: Conspiracy Rumors Swirl Around Photo Op An ominous email came in to the sluggo.com listserv, and writers for independent media knew it...
AP | SINAN SALAHEDDIN and TAREK EL-TABLAWY | Posted 12.12.2009 | World