With our Green dreams of renewable energy still in the future, the biggest oil company in America is growing steadily. Ease your agony by cashing in on the profits from our oil-sucking ways.
The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War, David Lebedoff, Random House, 264 pages IT IS AN OBVIOUS IDEA to treat in parallel England's two best prose writers born during the 20th century. Nevertheless, maybe because the idea is so obvious, it has never...
WASHINGTON -- For most, race cars have little to do with the $700 billion economic recovery plan lawmakers will consider today. But in Congress, they could make a difference. That's because Rep. Frank LoBiondo, R-N.J., who voted against the bailout, now must decide on a revised bill that...
Nearly a year after a Chinese freighter collided with the Bay Bridge, dumping more than 50,000 gallons of bunker fuel into San Francisco Bay, Bay Area lawmakers have succeeded in passing the most sweeping oil spill reforms in California since the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989. Eleven...
Nearly a year after a Chinese freighter collided with the Bay Bridge, dumping more than 50,000 gallons of bunker fuel into San Francisco Bay, Bay Area lawmakers have succeeded in passing the most sweeping oil spill reforms in California since the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989. Eleven...
Nearly a year after a Chinese freighter crashed into the Bay Bridge, dumping more than 50,000 gallons of bunker fuel into the Bay, Bay Area lawmakers have succeeded in passing the most sweeping oil-spill reforms in California since the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989. Eleven of the...
A toxic, glimmering surface on the water, the matted feathers of birds whose lifeless bodies had become slick with oil--these images have lived in Stan Samuelson's memory for nearly 20 years. At 83, the retired fisherman remembers with clarity the devastation wreaked by the Exxon Valdez oil spill. ...
IRVING, Texas -- Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM): [TABLE OMITTED] EXXONMOBIL'S CHAIRMAN REX W. TILLERSON COMMENTED: "ExxonMobil's second quarter earnings excluding special items were a record $11,970 million, up 17% from the second quarter of 2007. Earnings per share excluding special items were up 24% reflecting the...
Beauty and beholder Ford Ross wrote in his June 24 letter that wind turbines are ugly and "have desecrated the landscape." May I assume that Mr. Ross finds the following to be attractive: rusty oil tanks and foul smelling, noisy oil rigs; the orange haze from smog...
The U.S. Supreme Court invoked the ire of 33,000 Alaskans who were hoping to score $75,000 each in belated compensation for the losses incurred by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound. In a 5-3 decision, the highest court in the land ruled that the company shouldn't...
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court's dramatic ruling establishing individual gun rights -- along with other recent decisions -- shows that the Roberts court remains deeply split despite justices' efforts to find common ground. In the annual term that finished Thursday, the justices divided 5-4 on some of their...
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday slashed the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million, a decision that could have broader implications for limiting how much courts can order businesses to pay. The decision was hailed by the business community...
WASHINGTON AFP — The US Supreme Court Wednesday rejected as excessive 2.5 billion dollars in punitive damages awarded to victims of the Exxon Valdez oil disaster and said it should be cut to 507 million dollars. The long-running legal battle stretches back to March 24, 1989 when the...
WASHINGTON AFP — The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a 2.5 billion dollar punitive damages award to victims of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster was excessive and should be slashed to 507 million dollars. In an opinion penned by Justice David Souter the high court...
WASHINGTON AFP — The US Supreme Court Wednesday rejected as excessive 2.5 billion dollars in punitive damages awarded to victims of the Exxon Valdez oil disaster and said it should be cut to 507 million dollars. The long-running legal battle stretches back to March 24, 1989 when the...
IRVING, Texas -- The Supreme Court today ruled on legal questions relating to punitive damages and the Valdez oil spill. The Valdez oil spill was a tragic accident and one which the corporation deeply regrets. We know this has been a very difficult time for everyone...
WASHINGTON -- The nine Supreme Court justices will enter through crimson velvet drapes this morning and take their seats at a mahogany bench to announce decisions in some of the most closely watched cases of their annual term. Twenty-six cases await resolution, including disputes over Guantanamo detainees, Washington,...
Investing responsibly is not an option but an imperative, according to professor Prakash Sethi, a renowned academic and senior policy advisor to the United Nations Global Compact. Sethi, president of the International Center for Corporate Accountability at Baruch College, New York, spoke from a wealth of experience...
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA scientist John lncardona reported on a previously unrecognized threat to human health from a ubiquitous class of air pollutants in a recent symposium organized by NOAA's Oceans and Human Health Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts. Incardona's presentation delved into how one type of polycyclic...
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