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Big oil companies united to fight regulations - but spent millions bracing for climate change
2015-12-31 12:26:31| Chemicals - Topix.net
"Let's face it: The science of climate change is too uncertain to mandate a plan of action that could plunge economies into turmoil," the ad said. "Scientists cannot predict with certainty if temperatures will increase, by how much and where changes will occur."
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Big Oil run amok in Kern County
2015-12-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: In California, we like to think of ourselves as being on clean energys cutting edge. We drive more electric vehicles, generate more electricity from solar power, and our legislators have pushed forward innovative policies that have become a model not just in the U.S., but around the world. Yet, hidden beneath this green image is a dirty secret: California is the third-largest oil-extracting state in the country, and the majority of that oil comes from where I call home, Kern County. Just two hours...
How Obama let big oil drill in the pristine Alaska wilderness
2015-12-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: From his seat in the small plane flying over the largest remaining swath of American wilderness, Bruce Babbitt thought he could envision the legacy of one of his proudest achievements as Interior secretary in the Clinton administration. Babbitt was returning in the summer of 2013 from four sunlit nights in Alaska's western Arctic, where at one point his camp was nearly overrun by a herd of caribou that split around the tents at the last minute. Now, below him, Babbitt saw an oil field-one carefully...
Big Oil bracing for fight to keep payments hidden
2015-12-05 13:57:03| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Washington a Big energy companies are bracing for the next round in their fight to stop U.S. regulators from making them reveal what they pay foreign governments for rights to extract oil, gas and minerals. The Securities and Exchange Commission is planning to vote as soon as Dec. 11 on a revised proposal for addressing a Dodd- Frank Act requirement that firms whose shares trade in the United States publicly report payments such as taxes, royalties and other fees, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Big Oil bracing for fight to keep payments hidden
2015-12-05 12:53:45| Energy - Topix.net
Washington a Big energy companies are bracing for the next round in their fight to stop U.S. regulators from making them reveal what they pay foreign governments for rights to extract oil, gas and minerals. The Securities and Exchange Commission is planning to vote as soon as Dec. 11 on a revised proposal for addressing a Dodd- Frank Act requirement that firms whose shares trade in the United States publicly report payments such as taxes, royalties and other fees, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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