ExxonMobil Shareholders Vote Down Gay-Inclusive Nondiscrimination Policy At an annual shareholders meeting that took place in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday, ExxonMobil shareholders voted down a gay-inclusive...
After declairing oil war on foreign companies in Nigeria, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) has launched an aggresive operation called hurricane Barbarossa killing 22 Nigerian...
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The price of oil has fallen to below $111 a barrel as Hurricane Gustav weakened on its approach to the US coastline. "A stronger dollar also helped reverse the course for oil prices, which had risen by nearly $3 to over $118 a barrel earlier in the session.Still,...
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Exxon Mobil Corp is planning to sell off its company-owned gas stations because they are not profitable enough at the current price of gas.Business must be bad for them to take this measure!" The nation's...
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"Global warming climate change is happening.x20 A major cause of it is the burning of fossil fuels. The effects of it will be severe and damaging. We are already seeing some effects in extreme weather events,...
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This week, we look at what grades med schools get for cozying up to pharma, the continuing controversy over menthol cigarettes, and an extra ingredient in your chicken dinner. In "Six Degrees of Spin and Fakin',"...
This is an important item from the Iraqi people that unfortunately will undoubtedly be ignored by the major media. For this reason, I have included the whole letter ."Statement by Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions to 2008 Chevron and ExxonMobil Shareholder MeetingsMay 30, 2008...
"On February 19, the Indonesian government asked Pertamina to replace Exxon as manager of the Natuna block after talks to retain Exxon's contract were halted without the issue having been resolved.Exxon Mobil...
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"Big Oil's Profit and Plunder
By Ralph Nader
While many impoverished American families are shivering in the winter cold for lack of money to pay the oil baron their exorbitant price for home heating oil, ex-oil man, George W. Bush sleeps in a warm White House and relishes his...
"Of the Top 100 Global Marketers listed in the report, Euro RSCG Worldwide handles advertising for 32 of these brands including Ford Motor Co., Reckitt Benckiser, Danone Group, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Citigroup, Bayer, Schering-Plough Corp., Carrefour, ExxonMobil, Kraft, IBM,...
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This week, we cover threats against Nevada teachers, blacklisted
flacks, and ExxonMobil's interest in polar bears. In "Six Degrees of
Spin and Fakin'," we tell you how many steps it takes to get from "Army
of...
"As climate change legislation hopefully gets bogged down in a do-nothing Congress that continually punts on major issues of the day - keep your fingers crossed! - America's courts are likely to become the real...
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"By the time candles supposedly made from remains of a deceased ExxonMobil janitor named Reggie Watts were handed out, an audience of oil and gas professionals attending a keynote luncheon at Calgary's Gas and Oil...
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This is the press release about this wonderful identity correction that just went down. I am only gloating a tiny bit that I posted about it yesterday and Bruce Sterling writing in Wired posted it today...It is not about me and my blogging, though, it is about a spot-on bit...
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Dow and ExxonMobil aren't the two companies you'd normally choose for advice about environmental issues. At an upcoming conference, they're among the companies talking about ways to improve environmentalism at your organization, and how to handle promotions and marketing your...