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Bad behavior doesn’t warrant state-sanctioned approval

Last month Democrats wrote Gov. Sarah Palin requesting a special session to fix Alaska’s flawed oil tax law. When we did that, I hesitated at making the easy argument – that last year’s oil tax law is now clouded by…

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Ikea switches UK carfleet to hybrids

Ikea is switching its entire UK company-car fleet to hybrid vehicles as a prelude to a possible company-wide shift to greener vehicles. The Swedish retailer said it would trade in its Skoda company cars for Honda Civic hybrids by next…

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Climate change? Not with my money

Investments by Dutch banks cause more than three times the CO2 emissions that the Netherlands emits annually. The banks invest over twenty times more in projects that harm the climate such as oil extraction and coal-fired plants, than in projects…

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Environment and Employment top Mining & Metals CSR Agenda

Environment and employment are currently the major concerns regarding the Mining & Metals industry’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) record, states a report released today by Geneva-based reputation research firm Covalence, Covalence Mining & Metals Industry Report 2007. For 2006 to…

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Xstrata plans to cut coal mine greenhouse emissions

Mining giant Xstrata has outlined plans to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions from its coal mines within three years. The company is the world's largest thermal coal producer and has several mines in the New South Wales Hunter Valley and…

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Suit against Chevron gets go-ahead

Chevron Corp. can be sued in a U.S. court for a subsidiary's alleged collusion with the Nigerian government in attacks that killed and wounded villagers protesting the oil company's practices, a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled. U.S. District…

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