Big Oil
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Who was the Dirtiest Polluter This Year? I'd say BP
As you may have heard by now, Repower America is currently accepting votes for our 2010 Snake Oil Awards. The idea is to identify the dirtiest opponent of clean energy this year and give it the negative attention it truly deserves. Our campaign director, Dave Boundy, argued that Koch Industries deserves to win the award. […]
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'A coup d'etat against the carbon cronies': chatting with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lifelong environmentalist, a lawyer, an author, a cleantech backer, a falconer, a whitewater rafter, president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, a senior attorney and frequent spokesperson for NRDC, and a vigorous political campaigner. Other than that he's kind of a layabout. I caught up with him in San Francisco, where we chatted about ... well, mostly about how things are going to hell. But also other stuff!
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Opponents of California's AB 32 rail against a law that doesn’t exist
Supporters of Prop 23 in California are citing bogus research when they criticize California's climate law, AB 32.
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Energy lobbyists throwing money at new best buddies in Congress
Big Oil lobbyists aren't waiting until next week's midterm elections to court the House's new power brokers.
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Art Pope's millions fund climate change denial
An investigation by Facing South finds that the Koch brothers, have a valuable ally in North Carolina: conservative benefactor Art Pope.
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When corporations ruled the Earth
This country is being run for the benefit of alien life forms. They've invaded; they've conquered; and a lot of people do their bidding.
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Prop 26′s dirty backers flee from political poison of Prop 23
Millions of dollars are pouring into California's Prop 26, a fail-safe for the possibility that the pro-pollution Prop 23 fails.
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James Cameron, Gordon Moore take on Prop 23
James Cameron and other celebrity donors helped the No on 23 campaign amass a $25.8 million war chest to defeat California's Proposition 23.
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China antes up, bets, and bluffs in the new world oil game
Future historians may well agree that the 21st century Silk Road first opened for business on Dec. 14, 2009. That was the day a crucial stretch of pipeline officially went into operation linking the fabulously energy-rich state of Turkmenistan to Xinjiang Province in China's far west.