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The oil giant Chevron has transformed an old refinery site in California into a test bed for seven advanced photovoltaic solar technologies, which the company is evaluating for use at its facilities worldwide.
On Monday, Chevron is unveiling 7,700 solar panels...
SAN FRANCISCO – Green Festival®, the nation’s largest and longest running sustainability event, will return to the San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center this April 10-11, just in time to rev up the Golden Gate city for Earth Day’s 40th anniversary. More than 225 speakers, 350...
City leaders said the time has come to plan for a future without the company that has dominated the local economy for more than a century.
A future without Chevron, the city’s largest taxpayer and employer, was a reverberating theme at a community meeting Friday night held...
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Iraq recently held an international auction to run its oil fields, awarding contracts to companies like Royal Dutch Shell, and...
After accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, President Obama will go to Copenhagen to deliver a proposal for U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, the President leaves for these critical international talks on climate change shrouded in a "petroleum-powered...
The oil industry is more powerful today than at any other time in history save the early 20th century. Thanks to last year's record run-up in oil prices, seven of the world's most valuable corporations are now oil companies. Yet just one of those companies has become the focus of intense...
Barack Obama took the oath of office on January 20, 2009 with the wind at his back, armed with a mandate to reverse the course of the Bush administration on a wide range of issues, climate change prominent among them. Ten months later, the winds have stilled and Obama appears...
Shannon Biggs is the director of the Community Rights program at Global Exchange. Shannon also teaches rights-based organizing at weekend-long Democracy Schools, developed by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund in 23 states around the country, and speaks across the nation on the...
Last week, ExxonMobil became the first U.S. oil company in 35 years to sign an oil-production contract with the government of Iraq.
As I write, several other contracts with the world’s largest oil companies are being finalized, and more are expected when a new negotiating...
San Francisco, CA (November 2009) – Green Festival, the nation’s largest green consumer living event will make its eighth annual trip to San Francisco this year on November 13, 14 & 15, 2009 at the San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center. At this time of unprecedented...
