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November 20, 2009
Ask Many Good Ideas
[Rights-based Organizing]
   Business With Passion: Shannon Biggs -- Interview with Shannon Biggs at the 2009 Bioneers Conference.
 
November 20, 2009
Environment and Energy News
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   MidAmerican coal plants in Utah, Wyoming lead California's first annual emissions count -- Its official: Chevron largest GHG Emitter in California
 
November 17, 2009
BNET
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   Chevron's Acquisition Strategy: Small Companies Need Not Apply -- Chevron has invested at least $200 million into each of its 90 capital projects. The company’s investment exceeded $1 billion in forty of its major capital projects.
 
November 16, 2009
The San Francisco Chronicle
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   New nonprofit uses Web to pressure Chevron -- Richard Goldman, one of the founders of the Men's Wearhouse clothing chain, has created a nonprofit group that will use social-networking tools to spread word of the case and put pressure on Chevron.
 
November 16, 2009
Politico
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   Chevron's lobbying campaign backfires -- Facing the possibility of a $27 billion pollution judgment against it in an Ecuadorean court, Chevron launched an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign to try to prevent the judgment as well as reverse a deeply damaging story line. But many of the company’s moves have backfired.
 
November 14, 2009
AlterNet
[The Chevron Program > Chevron Program in the News]
   Did Big Oil Win the War in Iraq? -- By Antonia Juhasz -- As U.S. and British oil companies sign contracts with the Iraqi government, is it time to declare Big Oil the "victor" in the bloody venture?
 
November 12, 2009
Wall Street Journal
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   Chevron Official Urges Asian Governments to Boost Energy Security -- Chevron is pushing for more access to gas deposits in Asia, telling countries that they need a more stable business climate so that Chevron can be assured returns on investments in coal and natural gas extraction in their country.
 
November 10, 2009
The Huffington Post
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   People Versus Chevron -- Environmental groups in Richmond, Ca are fighting their neighbor, a Chevron refinery, in court to stop the refinery from processing heavier oil without ensuring that the change will not harm the health of local citizens.
 
November 04, 2009
San Francisco Bay Guardian
[The Chevron Program > Chevron Program in the News]
   Marching on Chevron -- Although the 250-seat Roxie Theater auditorium was filled to capacity for the Nov. 1 screening of the controversial film "The Yes Men Fix the World," the real action took place on the city's streets when audience members took the film's anticorporate message directly to an oil giant's door.
 
November 03, 2009
The Huffington Post
[The Chevron Program > Chevron Program in the News]
   Chevron Gets Fixed -- By Antonia Juhasz. On Sunday, Chevron became the first oil company to come under a Yes Men Audience Attack. Chevron was chosen because Chevron is different from other oil companies.
 
October 30, 2009
The Washington Post
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   Group attacks Chevron ally -- Two months ago, Chevron released statements and videotapes provided by two men that it said cast doubt on the integrity of a court in Ecuador, where the company is fighting demands that it pay billions of dollars to fix damage done years ago by oil exploration in the Ecuadoran Amazon. But on Thursday doubt was cast on the integrity of one of those men by Amazon Watch.
 
October 29, 2009
The New York Times
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   Revelation Undermines Chevron Case in Ecuador -- An American whose secret recordings have placed him at the center of a $27 billion lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador is a convicted drug trafficker, records show, throwing another complication into a case already tainted by accusations of bribery and espionage.
 
October 26, 2009
Contra Costa Times
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   “Chevron Corp. spilled between three and five tons of molten sulfur from a pipeline in Pascagoula, Miss." -- San Ramon-based Chevron Corp. spilled between three and five tons of molten sulfur from a pipeline in Pascagoula, Miss., while transferring the sulfur to a barge, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
 
October 14, 2009
KNPR's
[The Chevron Program > Chevron Program in the News]
   "Tyranny of Oil" -- Antonia Juhasz, director of the newly established Chevron Program at Global Exchange gives some of provocative thinking about globalization and energy use.
 
October 11, 2009
New Orleans Business News
[The Chevron Program > Chevron Program in the News]
   Tulane develops Center for African Resource Development -- As domestic energy companies venture ever farther from the United States to find oil and natural gas, the Tulane Energy Institute is hoping to forge a partnership with Africa.
 
October 08, 2009
Fog City Journal
[The Chevron Program > Chevron Program in the News]
   Noam Chomsky: Crisis and Hope in the Age of Obama -- Professor Noam Chomsky is joined by David Bacon, Steve Williams and Global Exchange's Antonia Juhasz as they speak about US foreign policy and its failure to change under the Obama administration.
 
October 08, 2009
Reuters
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   Iraq studying new bids for first round oilfields -- Iraq has formed a committee to study new or revised bids by oil majors for fields that were not awarded in an initial energy bidding round that concluded in June.
 
October 07, 2009
WORT Radio. Madison Wisconsin
[The Chevron Program > Chevron Program in the News]
   A Public Affair -- WORT Radio interview with Antonia Juhasz.
 
October 04, 2009
pdxjustice Media Productions
[The Chevron Program > Chevron Program in the News]
   Antonia Juhasz: What You Can Do To Prevent the Escalation of the US War and Occupation in Afghanistan -- Video clip of Antonia Juhasz speaking at the Noam Chomsky event, "Crisis and Hope in the Age of Obama." Juhasz talks about our collective opportunity to influence the Obama Administration's decision on whether to escalate the US war and occupation in Afghanistan.
 
September 30, 2009
Business Wire
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   Chevron CEO’s Legacy Marred by Mishandling of Ecuador Environmental Crisis -- David O’Reilly’s surprise early retirement as CEO of Chevron comes at a time he was under increasing pressure from shareholders and the media over an environmental liability in Ecuador that could eat up roughly 20% of the market value of the company and has caused a wave of negative publicity and scrutiny from Wall Street analysts and a potential criminal investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
 
September 30, 2009
National Public Radio
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   Senate Unveils Plan to Reduce Emissions -- Upcoming bill is the Senate's version of an energy and climate measure the House of Representatives passed in June. California Democrat Barbara Boxer is expected to unveil it Wednesday. It would essentially remake the entire energy economy of the country.
 
September 30, 2009
Bloomberg
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   Chevron Promotes Watson to Replace O’Reilly as CEO -- Chevron said Vice Chairman John Watson will become chairman and chief executive officer when David O’Reilly retires at the end of this year after a decade at the helm of the second-largest U.S. oil company.
 
September 29, 2009
Business Week
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   Court replaces judge in Chevron pollution case -- An Ecuadorean court dealt the plaintiffs a setback Tuesday in a $27 billion environmental contamination lawsuit against Chevron Corp., accepting the presiding judge's request to be removed from the case.
 
September 17, 2009
The Washington Post
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   Biden Pushes Iraqi Leaders On Vote Law, Oil-Bid Perks -- Vice President Biden pressed Iraqi leaders Wednesday to approve as quickly as possible legislation that establishes rules for the planned January general election and to make the next round of bids to develop Iraqi oil concessions more attractive to foreign investors.
 
September 16, 2009
Forbes
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   The Chevron Way -- In an Ecuador legal battle, the oil giant gives U.S. companies a bad name.
 
September 13, 2009
The Cincinnati Enquirer
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   Jury trial could decide Chevron case -- More than 200 residents near the old Chevron refinery in Whitewater Township will find out next week what a jury thinks of their multimillion-dollar claim that the oil company dumped toxic waste into their soil and water.
 
September 11, 2009
The Am Law Daily
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   Plaintiff's Lawyer in Chevron Environmental Lawsuit Speaks Out -- The Am Law Daily recently spoke with Steven Donziger about Chevron's latest allegations, Judge Nunez's recusal, and whether there's an end in sight.
 
September 10, 2009
AFP
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   Oil majors propping up Myanmar regime: rights group -- Energy giants Total and Chevron are propping up Myanmar's junta with a gas project that has allowed the regime to stash nearly five billion dollars in Singaporean banks, a rights group said Thursday.
 
September 09, 2009
The New York Times
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   Big Oil’s Stain in the Amazon -- The film, which follows the fitful progress of a class-action lawsuit undertaken on behalf of the people of the Ecuadorean Amazon, is not about the unintended consequences of using petroleum. Instead, it examines the terrible, frequently unacknowledged costs of extracting oil from the ground.
 
September 09, 2009
CNN Money
[The Chevron Program > Chevron in the News]
   Ecuador Seeks Legal Action Against Chevron -- Ecuador's attorney general wants legal action in the U.S. against Chevron Corp., after the company released videos that it says showed undue influence on a court case involving Chevron.
 


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