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Oil Companies & U.S. Chamber of Commerce — One & the Same?

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Continuing on with our series on 350.org’s The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Doesn’t Speak for Me campaign, let’s take a quick look at some ties between the Chamber and the oil industry.

As you may have heard, and 350.org recently noted, large oil companies are having a ball, raking in billions and billions of dollars in profit (that’s right, not revenue but profit) while the U.S. economy suffers:

“Exxon Mobil nabbed $10.7bn; Shell pulled in $6.9bn; Chevron, $4.5bn; and last but not least, BP, after accounting for oil spill losses still made out with $7.1bn.”

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BP, Under Criminal Investigation & Violating Its Probation, Still Gets Multi-Million Dollar Government Contracts

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If BP were a person (as it now is, legally, under the ridiculous Citizens United Supreme Court ruling of 2010), it would be in serious s*** right now. It is under a federal criminal investigation due to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, and it has violated its terms of probation twice in the last year.

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Origins of Earth Day {VIDEO}

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Ever wonder exactly how Earth Day started? Organic Bouquet, a “mission-based florist and the largest online provider of eco-friendly and organic gifts,” put together the video below, including footage from an oil spill off the California coast over 30 years ago (and oil-covered birds like we saw in the Gulf last year). Interesting story. Check it out

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Gulf Residents Trek 1,200 Miles on Foot to D.C. to Ask for More Action on BP Oil Spill

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Some Louisiana residents and oil spill activists fed up with BP oil spill inaction recently walked to Washington, D.C. from their home state of Louisiana to try to get Congress, the Obama administration, and BP to do more in response to the BP oil spill and its effects on their lives and communities.

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Big Oil & Gas Not Paying Millions or Even Billions for the Land They Lease

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On the anniversary of the BP oil spill, I thought I’d do another piece on some recent oil industry news. While the U.S. is struggling to decrease its debt in the midst of efforts to get the economy rolling string again, it seems there is still millions if not billions of dollars in oil and gas company income owed to the nation that is not being collected. Confused?

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Offshore Oil Drilling after Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill — No New Safeguards, GOP Push for Less Oversight

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One of the worst environmental disasters in history struck one year ago today — the “Deepwater Horizon oil spill,” or “BP oil spill.” Haven’t kept up with the details of offshore oil drilling much lately and curious where things stand? Well, I can’t say that we’ve learned from our lesson.

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NASA: Toxic Dispersants Did Rain on Gulf Coast from BP Oil Spill "Cleanup"

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Remember how all the conspiracy nuts claimed the chemicals BP was dumping in the water might actually evaporate into the air and then rain down on the Gulf States, poisoning land, water, and of course, people? And remember how the government officials said, “No, no, no! That could NEVER happen. Not to worry! … But

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Newest Gulf Report: Oil, Soot and Dead Animals on Sea Floor

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Reporting her results from a fifth Gulf of Mexico expedition ending this past December,  University of Georgia marine scientist Samantha Joye has been to the bottom and back, and her findings are anything but optimistic. Her team has found numerous expanses of oil and soot covered sea floor that were “chemically finger-printed” as deriving from

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Hertsgaard Nails Inhofe, Oil Lobbyists [Amazing Video Interviews]

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Wow, no joke, Mark Hertsgaard nailed it in some key interviews with “climate cranks” in Washington this week. Explicitly pointing out that the most prestigious, overarching scientific bodies in the world have supported climate scientists’ work and conclusions and have stated that accelerated and potentially catastrophic climate change caused by humans is happening; that the

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Chevron Found Guilty! But Still Trying to Avoid its Responsibility

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More updates on this story: Updates on Chevron-Ecuador Controversy (posting on February 17, 7:00am EST) If you’re just tuning in, Chevron and a previously independent company it now owns (Texaco, which it bought in 2001) have been using and abusing Ecuador for about half a century. They dumped billions upon billions of of gallons of

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Chevron Found Guilty! But Still Trying to Avoid its Responsibility

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More updates on this story: Updates on Chevron-Ecuador Controversy (posting on February 17, 7:00am EST) If you’re just tuning in, Chevron and a previously independent company it now owns (Texaco, which it bought in 2001) have been using and abusing Ecuador for about half a century. They dumped billions upon billions of of gallons of

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Chevron Insults and Attacks Indigenous People in Ecuador, Counter-Sues

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Chevron must have been jealous of BP in 2010, because it is taking corporate irresponsibility to another level in Ecuador. UPDATE: Chevron has just been ordered to pay $8 billion in damages in a court ruling on Monday, February 14, 2011. More updates on this story: Updates on Chevron-Ecuador Controversy (posting on February 17, 7:00am EST)

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Gulf Oil Spill Fines Would be Dedicated to Gulf Restoration under New House Amendment

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U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Ma.) and some other House Democrats introduced an amendment to an updated oil spill response bill last week that “would implement a key recommendation by the bipartisan oil spill commission,” the Environmental Defense Fund reports. “The recommendation is for Congress to dedicate 80 percent of Clean Water Act penalties to be assessed for

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Chevron Going to Court, for 'World's Worst Oil-Related Disaster' (In Ecuador)

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The BP oil spill took the headlines last year, but there’s another oil giant that may have a worse record, Chevron. Chevron has basically raped Ecuador’s most important natural resources and the health of its residents as a result. Tens of thousands are demanding justice, in court. Here’s more from Joanna Zelman of Huffington Post,

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David Koch, Tea Party Billionaire, Denies Climate Change, Shrugs Off His Carbon Footprint [VIDEO]

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In the second part of a 3-part series on David Koch based on an interview with him, Lee Fang of ThinkProgress discusses Koch’s opinions on climate change and his “shrug” regarding his own carbon pollution. Here’s more: This week, ThinkProgress conducted an impromptu interview with David Koch — one of the richest men in America, co-owner

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Letterman: Top 10 Things Overheard During Republicans’ 1st Day in Charge of House

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQ1IFUD9Rw A nice David Letterman Top 10 list (text below). 10. “Mr. Boehner, please stop crying.” 9.    “How do we blame this dead bird thing on Obama.” 8.    “I think he was just sworn in on a copy of Snooki’s new book.” 7.    “Beer me.” 6.    “Alright, you’ve had six hours, is the economy fixed?”

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BP Oil Spill a "Tremendous," "Blossoming" Flower of Energy; "BP is coming back from this"

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As I said in the post published an hour ago on TSA agents giving Gulf activists special treatment in California’s Ontario Airport, I recently ran across a few new BP oil spill stories that deserve a little attention. First of all, with regards to the BP oil spill, how’s this for compassion? As we saw

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Environmental News: California Chemical Bill, Self-Service Electric Cars in Paris, Hillary's Ties to Oil Lobbyists, World's Biggest Wind Farm

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More environmental news from around the internet. Will California Swallow A Poison Pill This Christmas Season? When the author of a landmark piece of green legislation withdraws his support for a program he himself created and demands its withdrawal, it’s a pretty sure sign that industry interests have pulled a fast one. That’s the case

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Stephen Colbert Wins Twitter

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Yes, that sentence doesn’t actually make sense, but if you’re Stephen Colbert it does. Colbert typed the most popular tweet of 2010 in the midst of the BP oil spill disaster back in June: “in honor of oil-soaked birds, ‘tweets’ are now ‘gurgles.” Recognizing this great achievement, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone gave Colbert the first-ever

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Indigenous Peruvians Win Appeal Against U.S. Oil Company Oxy

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“Indigenous plaintiffs from the Peruvian Amazon won their appeal [this week] in the landmark human rights and environmental contamination lawsuit against U.S. oil giant Occidental Petroleum (Oxy), as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the case should be heard in Los Angeles, Oxy’s hometown,” Amazon Watch and EarthRights International wrote earlier

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Thorough Analysis Needed Before We Recklessly Drill in Arctic Ocean

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The BP oil spill was an accident. There are many things that probably could have prevented it, though. For example, more careful governmental review. Yet, while we are still discovering negative consequences resulting from this tremendous environmental and economic disaster, there are people pushing to streamline oil and gas drilling in the Arctic. The Wilderness

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