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New report documents problems at Big Oil U
Big Oil has flooded campuses with millions of dollars to pay for clean energy research at American universities, undermining tradition academic values and potentially furthering a narrow commercial research agenda, according to a report released Thursday by the Center for American Progress. Jennifer Washburn shows how Big Oil has underwritten research at top-tier universities with few protections for scientific objectivity or scholarly independence.
Continue reading...Biofuels’ bad rap needs do-over
Monday, April 20, 2009
04-20-09 by dugan The biofuel industry was robbed by the California Air Resources Board, says a letter today from scientists at the Sandia National Laboratories. The biofuels industry has been crying foul since the California Air Resources Board put out a study ranking current biofuels as equal to or maybe worse than petroleum in their [...]
Continue reading...Show us your algae!
Friday, August 22, 2008
8-22-08 by dugan I was reading up today on research about turning pond scum into biodiesel. One promising thread is that algae can be fed the carbon dioxide emitted by power plants, multiplying their oil production on a waste greenhouse gas. Algae may also thrive on ground garbage. It’s a concept that needs [...]
Continue reading...Green Half-Truths
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
4-02-08 by dugan I didn’t get time yesterday to post on a House select committee’s grilling of executives from the major oil companies, but as the chairman, Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, pointedly said, "there will be many more." (If you’ve got a question you’d like to have posed to Big Oil, please [...]
Continue reading...BP’s Profits Exception
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
NEWS RELEASE February 5, 2008 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, cell: 213-280-0175; Jamie Court, 310-392-0522, ext. 327 or cell : 310-874-9989; or Tim Hamilton, 360-495-4941 BP, ‘Bumbling Petroleum,’ Is Exception to Profit Boom; Group Warns Against Cutting Safety As It Sheds Jobs Yearly 2008 Profit Total for Big Five Oil Companies Still Hits $114 Billion, Picking Consumer [...]
Continue reading...Chevron & Exxon’s Record Profits
Friday, February 1, 2008
NEWS RELEASE February 1, 2008 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, (310) 392-0522, ext. 305, cell: 213 280-0175; or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell: 310 874-9989; or Tim Hamilton, (360) 495-4941 Chevron, Exxon Record Profits Reaped At Cost To Sliding Economy, Strapped Consumers; Group Calls for Market Oversight FTCR Also Releases "Oil Profit Monster"; Free Public Database Of [...]
Continue reading...Shell Posts Record Annual Profit
Thursday, January 31, 2008
NEWS RELEASE January 31, 2008 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, ext. 305, cell: 213-280-0175; or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell: 310 874-9989 Shell’s Record Profit Is a Thumb In the Eye of Recession-Wracked Nation, Says Group; Yearly Profits of Industry Will Nearly Equal Treasury Cost of Federal Economic Stimulus Package Santa Monica, CA — The record [...]
Continue reading...Another Big Oil U Warning Issued
Monday, January 21, 2008
1-21-08 by simpson The prestigious Center for Science in the Public Interest has joined us in warning of the dangers Big Oil money poses to university research. In a report issued today CSPI says American universities may be jeopardizing their academic integrity by giving oil, gas, and other polluting industries unprecedented influence over the [...]
Continue reading...No Oil Money At Smithsonian
Monday, November 19, 2007
11-19-2007 by simpson The American Petroleum Institute (API), Big Oil’s favorite mouthpiece, has pulled its $5 million offer to sponsor a centerpiece exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution about the oceans as a global treasure . The move came after two Regents had questioned the proposal. Now oil companies won’t be able to spend their ill-gotten [...]
Continue reading...BP Deal Sells Out UC-Berkeley
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
NEWS RELEASE November 14, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, 310-392-0522, x317; or cell: 310-292-1902 UC Deal With Oil Giant Sells Out University’s Values; Insults Regents and Public, Consumer Advocates Say; New Details Emerge Granting BP More Power Over University Research Santa Monica, CA — The $500 million deal with BP signed today by University of [...]
Continue reading...Big Oil U Adds A Campus
Thursday, November 8, 2007
11-8-07 by simpson Oil giant BP and UC Berkeley have yet to sign the contract for the $500 million deal that would create the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) at UC Berkeley, but there was an announcement this week of another BP-funded project at Arizona State University in Tempe. It’s only a $6.6 million deal with [...]
Continue reading...The Smithsonian Example
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
11-06-07 by court and simpson The Smithsonian Institution has rebuffed — for now at least –a $5 million donation from Big Oil’s favorite mouthpiece, the American Petroleum Association (API). The API money was to go toward the Smithsonian’s showcase Ocean Initiative. That’s right, Big Oil money sponsoring a centerpiece exhibit about the oceans as a [...]
Continue reading...Dynes ‘Reviewing’ UC-BP Deal
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
11-06-07 by simpson The contract that would create a $500 million research deal between UC Berkeley and oil giant BP is “under review” in the office of University of California President Robert Dynes. Not clear is whether it will be vetted by the UC Regents as we and two other groups have demanded. Last [...]
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