BP (formerly British Petroleum) is a global oil and gas company.
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Where to begin. First, you all may see a spike in gas prices in the coming days. Second, now I know how much the district administration cares for its staff and students. Let me take a couple of ...
by zenbassoon
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on Sat Feb 03, 2024 at 07:00 PM PST
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A lawsuit filed September 15 in San Francisco Superior Court by Attorney General Rob Bonta accuses Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute of mounting a “disinformation campaign” beginning in the 1950s "to...
by ybruti
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on Mon Sep 18, 2023 at 11:36 AM PDT
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NEW YORK – On September 16, Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that California is suing Big Oil “for more than 50 years of deception, cover-up, and damage that have cost California taxpayers billions of dollars in health and...
by Dan Bacher
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on Sat Sep 16, 2023 at 11:03 AM PDT
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It’s been pretty hot lately. Scientists say July was the hottest month on record—likely by a “significant margin”—and may have been the most brutally steamy stretch in 120,000 years. And the reason is almost certainly—surprise, surprise!—human-caused...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Tue Aug 01, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Welcome to what is apparently the latest in a series of posts on how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is using all the tools in the propaganda ("public relations") handbook to launder its reputation. On top of the sexual harassment allegations facing...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Thu Jun 22, 2023 at 06:40 AM PDT
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So, I was bored all day Friday and decided to go ahead and doodle this on my computer to keep my mind occupied. I could not help but to chuckle at it once I finished it because not only did it turn out extremely good, but it perfectly describes big oil...
by Miles Estrelle
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on Fri Jun 02, 2023 at 11:00 PM PDT
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Sacramento, CA — If you thought the $18 million that Big Oil spent on lobbying California officials in 2022 was outrageous, the gusher of money the oil and gas industry is spending in their campaign to control the regulatory apparatus is even worse...
by Dan Bacher
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on Tue May 02, 2023 at 04:39 PM PDT
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by Mark Fiore
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on Fri Feb 17, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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The House Committee on Oversight and Reform released findings from an investigation into Big Oil companies showing that giants like Chevron, BP, Shell, and Exxon will seemingly do everything they can to keep the U.S. reliant on fossil fuels—no matter...
by April Siese
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on Fri Dec 09, 2022 at 03:54 PM PST
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Pity poor Shell, the oil and gas giant that couldn’t quite price-gouge its way into yet another record-breaking quarter of profits. Reuters reports that Shell didn’t reach the same heights as the gains it reported in the second quarter of the year,...
by April Siese
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on Thu Oct 27, 2022 at 11:25 AM PDT
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The Associated Press has an incredible multimedia feature on the brown pelican, Louisiana’s state bird and a symbol of resilience that community members actually take to heart as opposed to the pithy praise from outsiders that we once again survived...
by April Siese
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on Wed Jul 27, 2022 at 11:58 AM PDT
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A leaked admission from a now-fired ExxonMobil lobbyist has apparently inspired Democrats on both the Natural Resources Committee and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee to add publicists to their purview as they investigate Big Oil’s climate...
by April Siese
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on Tue Jun 14, 2022 at 10:31 AM PDT
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House Democrats passed a bill on Thursday night that would let the Federal Trade Commission investigate price gouging allegations against energy companies. Gas prices have been at record highs in recent weeks, and while legitimate supply chain issues...
by Laura Clawson
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on Fri May 20, 2022 at 06:56 AM PDT
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When the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s hearing on skyrocketing gas prices kicked off on Wednesday, there was no denying the tension between lawmakers demanding accountability from oil and gas executives and the very leaders who declined to...
by April Siese
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on Thu Apr 07, 2022 at 08:16 AM PDT
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Yesterday when talking about the $50 million going to climate denial organizations, we mentioned it was just a drop in the bucket compared to things like fossil fuel advertising budgets. But it’s also just a tenth of what the Koch network alone has...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Fri Mar 25, 2022 at 06:20 AM PDT
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The top executives running Exxon Mobil, Shell Oil, BP America, and Chevron came before Congress for the first time Thursday to face an onslaught of questions—and heaps of criticism—about their longstanding hypocrisies over so-called commitments to...
by Brandi Buchman
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on Thu Oct 28, 2021 at 12:55 PM PDT
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For at least the past four years, we’ve talked about the fossil fuel industry’s concern about climate activists targeting it’s social license to operate (our collective social and legal acceptance of their business) and how the industry’s tried to put...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Thu Jun 11, 2020 at 06:50 AM PDT
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The massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 was an environmental calamity of epic proportions. Two hundred and five million gallons of crude oil and two hundred and twenty-five tons of methane spilled into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico off the...
by Pakalolo
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on Sat Feb 15, 2020 at 03:45 AM PST
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6 October 1961, two years before the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy urged Americans to build Bomb/Fallout shelters. Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump continues to align himself with those same enemies of America, soliciting their...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Mon Oct 14, 2019 at 05:50 PM PDT
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Billions Lost Three billion birds gone since 1970. This is the result from the latest comprehensive review of North American birds. It’s a startling number that suggests that the reduction of habitat and the widespread use of chemical insecticides have...
by Austin Bailey
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on Tue Sep 24, 2019 at 10:37 AM PDT
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