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Replacing Human Reserves

Now, you could view the efforts of companies like BP, Shell, Chevron and ConocoPhillips to branch out into wind, solar and biofuels as the early stages of diversification into the types of energy that must someday replace oil & gas,…

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Chevron fined in Kazakh oil row

Chevron's Kazakh venture was fined 37 billion tenge ($307 million) on a government claim that the oil company damaged the environment by maintaining "excessive" stockpiles of sulfur from petroleum production, a Kazakh regional court official said Monday. The court accepted…

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BP and Chevron Go Virtual and Green

What do Chevron and BP have in common, besides being leading members of Big Oil? Computer games, apparently. Yesterday, the New York Times reported on BP's latest rebranding move–a "collaboration" with Electronic Arts on the video game company's latest version…

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French Min: Total Should Do More On Human Rights In Myanmar

GENEVA -(Dow Jones)- French oil major Total SA (TOT) isn't doing enough to press Myanmar to free political prisoners, France's new foreign minister said Thursday. Appointed foreign minister by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Bernard Kouchner is known for advocating interventionism…

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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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Is Big Business Buying Out the Environmental Movement?

In the business world these days, it appears that just about everything is for sale. Multi-billion-dollar deals are commonplace, and even venerable institutions such as the Wall Street Journal find themselves put into play. Yet companies are not the only…

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Hillary Clinton sets fundraising record

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner for the White House, on Sunday said she had raised $26m since she entered the race — almost twice her campaign’s target and more than three times the record for the first quarter of the…

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