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Entries Tagged as 'energy'

Utah is going to a 4-day workweek to save energy

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

Shorter workweeks save energy.
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Tags: energy · environment · u.s.+news

The Perils of Petro-ization

November 4th, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

in fact, 77 percent of the world’s oil reserves are held by national oil companies with no private equity, and there are 13 state-owned oil companies with more reserves than ExxonMobil, the largest multinational oil company. The popular perception in the United States is that if leaders of oil countries nationalize their oil, they are […]

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Tags: energy · oil

Exxon Hacks the Yes Men

June 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

“One day after the Yes Men made a joke announcement of ExxonMobil’s plans to turn billions of climate-change victims into a brand-new fuel called Vivoleum, the Yes Men’s upstream internet service provider shut down Vivoleum.com and cut off the Yes Men’s email service, in reaction to a complaint whose source they will not identify.
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Tags: exxon · energy · yes+men · environment · media+reform · business · global+warming · open+society

Landowners gain ground in West’s energy turf wars - Los Angeles Times

June 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

Like many Westerners, Hawkins owns the surface of his ranch but not the rights to the minerals below. Traditionally, property owners in such “split estates” have had little choice but to get out of the way when energy companies start chopping trees, paving roads or sinking wells to get buried fuel.
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Tags: energy · environment

Lawmakers Push for Big Subsidies for Coal Process

May 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

Could be one of the worst. ideas.ever.
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Tags: diesel · coal · energy · global+warming · green+energy