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Murphy Oil Chair Critical Of Bill To Limit Carbon Output

August 31st, 2009

| Sourced From Todaysthv.com |The legislation is supposed to clean up our air, but oil giant Murphy Oil says it won’t make a dent. Murphy Oil talked to Arkansans about why it is against the American Clean Energy and Security Act today.Murphy Oil says the proposed law, based on the cap and trade concept, would cause higher energy prices. The company says that would result in an even a slower economy.Commercials by the National Association of Manufacturers want you to beware of the cap and trade c

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Encouraging development in the Niger delta

June 9th, 2009

A (relatively) small but important victory for human rights today in Nigeria. (Ken Saro-Wiwa, a hugely influential activist for environmental justice in the oil rich Niger delta, was also profiled in Sandy Cioffi’s new documentary, Sweet Crude .) Shell pays out $15.5m over Saro-Wiwa killing * Ed Pilkington in New York * guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 9 June 2009 00.07 BST The oil giant Shell has agreed to pay $15.5m (£9.6m) in settlement of a legal action in which it was accuse

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Restructuring in the Face of Climate Change

April 10th, 2009

Tiffany VogelThe collapse of building-sized chunks of ice into Neko Bay provide a fitting metaphor for the challenges facing businesses today.From the end of March to early April, BP, the British oil giant, hosted 50 college and university students from around the globe, along with several conservationists, climate change experts, and energy executives, on an expedition to Antarctica. Jeffrey Marlow, a master’s student in Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College, London, was among the s

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