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Research contracts between universities and the oil sector often fail to provide sufficient academic control and independence, a new report suggests.
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Shareholders have filed resolutions with three oil companies asking for their respective boards of directors to review political spending and policies in light of their support for overturning California's climate change law.
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Two Texas oil companies have come traipsing into California politics by funding a multimillion-dollar effort to suspend the state's landmark climate legislation, AB 32. The tactic has inspired this open letter on behalf of the Golden State.
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What can we do to make sure that disasters like Deepwater spill don't happen again? Green chemistry, a science that calls for eliminating hazards and waste at the design stage rather than at the end of the pipe, is among the many answers to the question.
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With the temporary oil spill cap seeming to last long enough for permanent fixes to come on line, the BP crisis is likely to shift out of disaster response mode and accountants will ramp up the tallying of costs. But one group will be counting profits instead of losses because of the principles they apply in screening investments.
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At a remote outpost in what is known as the Urucu Oil Province, Brazilian energy giant Petrobas produces oil and natural gas -- an example of what it calls "sustainable development." The project may not be sustainable in the strictest sense, but it is surprisingly about as environmentally benign as an oil-drilling project in a rainforest can be.
by Marc Gunther
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After a week at the Shanghai Expo, I've seen competing visions of what the future looks like.
by Joel Makower
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In spring, about the time the press coverage of the Gulf oil spill cranked into high gear, Shelton Group conducted a poll to see whether the event was affecting mindset of Americans on energy. The result may be one of the rare bits of "good news" to surface since the disaster.
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If you like the BP oil spill, you're going to love carbon capture and storage...
by Marc Gunther
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ExxonMobil shed light on how it is expanding the world's energy supply while reducing its environmental impacts on Tuesday, the day before the oil giant faces a shareholder vote to force more disclosure on its Candaian oil sands investments.
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Last week, we released the sustainability rankings of the world's largest oil and gas companies. Despite the skepticism of whether the industry can ever be green, there are plenty of reasons to rank their sustainability efforts.
by Todd Cort
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The latest industry rankings from Tomorrow's Value Rating looks at fossil fuel firms and finds that, despite solid leadership in innovation, the 10 largest companies are failing to take action on a number of environmental issues.
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Devices developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that could save the U.S. trucking industry $10 billion a year in diesel fuel are being tested at NASA Ames Research Center, home of the world's largest wind tunnel.
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BP, Caterpillar and ConocoPhilliips will not renew their memberships in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, choosing instead to devote resources to furthering their business interests through friendlier climate legislation or new product development.
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When it comes to the energy, Siemens Energy doesn't play favorites. It has a stake in the coal, nuclear, gas, wind and solar industries, as well as the smart grid and transmission business ... It's a big stake, too.
by Marc Gunther
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Although the U.K.'s 100 largest companies are making headway toward the country's climate change goals as a whole, its most carbon-intensive industries are lagging with emissions reduction targets that fall short of national goals.