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TAKE ACTION NOW! 48 Hours to Save Our Dying Planet!
Business  (tags: corporate, business, environment, news, society, oil, politics, world, sustainabledevelopment )

Cal
- 170 days ago - avaaz.org
Let's send our leaders a massive call to stand up to big oil and save the planet -- an Avaaz team at the summit will deliver our call directly.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell Congress: End Tax Breaks for Big Oil
Business  (tags: politics, oil, oil companies, corporate, budgets, corruption, americans, business, money, usa, economy )

Cal
- 176 days ago - action.foe.org
Sign this petition to tell Congress to prioritize people and the environment by ending all tax breaks for oil and gas companies.
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BAD BUSINESS: The 5 Most Toxic Energy Companies and How They Control Our Politics
Business  (tags: Big Oil, energy, corruption, corporate, business, dishonesty, economy, society, politics, oil, world, technology, usa, news, money, ethics )

Cal
- 186 days ago - alternet.org
Energy companies continue to rake in massive profits. They use this wealth to leverage elections, write legislation, scale back regulations and escape accountability.
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BP Loses Two Oil Spill Rulings
Business  (tags: corporate, corruption, oil, politics, law, lawsuits, BP, BP Oil Spill, pending litigation, usa, money, news, economy )

Cal
- 192 days ago - latimes.com
BP has lost two big rulings in its fight to shield itself from potentially having to pay billions of dollars more in damages related to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
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Chevron Halts Drilling of Brazil Well After Oil Spill
Business  (tags: energy, business, oil, society, pollution, corporate, dishonesty, economy, politics, news, world )

Cal
- 194 days ago - enn.com
Oil giant Chevron halted drilling of a well off the coast of Brazil as it looks into the possible causes of an oil spill in the region.
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BLOG: Threat to China: Will Corporatists in U.S. Government Move Forward to Assist Big Oil in Vietnam Discovery?
Business  (tags: energy, business, world, usa, China, oil politics, foreign relations, economic relations, politics, oil, society, ethics, government )

Cal
- 198 days ago - activistpost.com
ExxonMobil, the world's largest publicly traded company (by market value), has announced a "potentially significant" gas discovery off the coast of Vietnam.
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BP Agrees to Pay Texas $50 Million for Pollution
Business  (tags: business, corporate, corruption, pollution, BP, law, money, news, oil, politics, environment, economy, abuse, energy )

Cal
- 204 days ago - uk.reuters.com
BP Plc's U.S. subsidiary has agreed to pay $50 million in civil penalties to the state of Texas for pollution from its Texas City refinery, including the deadly March 2005 explosion, state Attorney General Greg Abbott said
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Out of Iraq: What Will the War Service Industry Do Now?
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, business, corporate, corruption, dishonesty, finance, government, investments, marketing, money, oil, politics, society, world )

Kit
- 212 days ago - truth-out.org
Once again, the war service industry, which is already deeply entrenched in our nine-year occupation of Iraq, will step in and make sure that their money flow will be maintained, albeit at a smaller level.
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Oil Above $US88 Amid Signs of Asia Economic Strength
Business  (tags: Oil, above, $US88, amid, signs, o, f Asia, economic, strength )

Agnes
- 213 days ago - news.com.au
OIL prices rose above $88 a barrel today in Asia amid signs of resilience in the economies of Japan and China. Benchmark crude for December delivery was up US65c at $US88.05 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercanti
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BAD BUSINESS IN THE ARCTIC: How Oil and Corruption Have Become So Closely Linked
Business  (tags: destruction, ecosystems, business, Arctic exploration, Bad Business, oil companies, dishonesty, environment, ethics, corporate, corruption, oil, politics, society, SustainableDevelopment, world, usa, finance )

Cal
- 219 days ago - theecologist.org
As a new oil-fever gathers pace in Arctic countries such as Greenland the lesson from history is that where there is oil, corruption will quickly follow. Eifion Rees reports
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GOOD NEWS! U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Nigeria-Shell Case
Business  (tags: law, environment, business, dishonesty, corporate abuse, bad business, legal precedents, corporate, society, politics, news, oil, labor, GoodNews, goodnews, government, ethics, world )

Cal
- 221 days ago - globalpost.com
Case will determine if corporations can be held accountable for abuses abroad
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Kenya Fire: Nairobi Pipeline Blaze 'Kills 100'
Business  (tags: abuse, business, corporate, corruption, dishonesty, energy, environment, ethics, oil, society, Kenya, suffering )

Gillian
- 257 days ago - bbc.co.uk
More than 100 people have died after a petrol pipeline explosion and fire in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, police say. The blast took place in the city's Lunga Lunga industrial area, and police and troops cordoned off the area as firefighters battled fierc
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Stop The Pain At The Pump ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Business  (tags: oil, gas prices, economy, environment, humans )

Cher
- 263 days ago - forcechange.com
Please sign the petition to urge the President and Congress to take meaningful steps to regulate gas prices in the U.S. and develop additional, cost effective means for oil production in the U.S
46 comments
What Exxon's Deal With Russia Really Means
Business  (tags: Russia, Exxon Mobil, Arctic Drilling, Offshore Drilling, Rosneft, oil, Gulf of Mexico, global warming, climate change )

Judy
- 266 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
This week ExxonMobil scored a deal to explore for oil in the Russian Arctic Ocean, and in exchange, the Russian state-owned Rosneft apparently got the right to become a part-owner of deepwater drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Oil Spill Investigation Begins as Shell Plugs North Sea Leak
Business  (tags: news, society, oil, politics, environment, environmental abuse, Shell, ethics, corporate, corruption, business, SustainableDevelopment, government, world )

Cal
- 277 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Successful plugging of two Gannet Alpha leaks come as a Scottish newspaper reveals Shell's poor safety record in the region
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