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CSR Websites ‘Do Little’ To Change Consumer Perception

March 13, 2014March 14, 2018 by Leon Walker

Corporate social responsibility websites do little to change people’s opinions of corporations, according to a study by research group Change Sciences. Corporate Social Responsibility Web Site User Experience 2014 compares 12 major companies’ CSR efforts by analyzing what people did while exploring the sites and how they felt about the experience. In the end, ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EPA Budget, Bottle Ban, Chevron Win

March 5, 2014 by Tamar Wilner

President Obama’s 2015 budget proposal calls for more investment in natural gas research and fossil fuel development, including what energy secretary Ernest Moniz called the administration’s first moves to demonstrate carbon capture technology for natural gas systems, The Hill reports. The budget also includes Obama’s $1 billion fund to help communities ... Read more »

States Accuse Companies of Improper Cleanup Payments

February 11, 2014February 11, 2014 by Tamar Wilner

Chevron, Exxon, ConocoPhillips and Sunoco have paid more than $105 million through state settlements in the past three years after they were accused of getting paid twice to deal with the same contamination cases, including leaks from underground fuel storage tanks. The cases allege the companies were paid once by ... Read more »

Chevron, Southwest Gas Fined $1M for Not Reporting GHG Emissions

January 28, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Chevron and Southwest Gas have been fined about $1 million for violating California’s mandatory greenhouse gas emissions reporting rule in 2011. This is the second time the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has issued fines for late or inaccurate reporting under the regulation, which mandates utilities and industrial facilities emitting ... Read more »

Fracking Certification Center Open for Business

January 21, 2014January 21, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Center for Sustainable Shale Development (CSSD), a collaborative established last year between Chevron, Shell and other natural gas companies and environmental groups to set fracking standards, says its third-party certification and verification program is now accepting applicants. As CSSD begins reviewing applications and auditing companies that apply for certification, ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: NO2 Standards, HCFCs, Product Efficiency

December 27, 2013December 27, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

China will impose stricter standards on the cement, battery, leather and heavy metal industries, including a requirement to control at least 60 percent of nitrogen dioxide emissions, the country’s environment ministry said today. China is the world’s biggest producer and exporter of batteries, and produced 56 percent of global cement last year, ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Chevron ‘Failure,’ BP Claims ‘Fraud, States Petition EPA

December 18, 2013December 18, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

The EPA accused Chevron of 62 violations of federal environmental law, related to an August 2012 fire at a Richmond, Calif., refinery that released a huge gas cloud and sent thousands of people to the hospital. The agency called risk management at the facility “a pervasive failure,” saying the company failed to ... Read more »

Big Oil, Major Firms Plan for Carbon Price

December 5, 2013December 5, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Walmart, BP, ExxonMobil, General Electric and about two dozen other major US companies have already integrated a price on carbon emissions into their long-term business plans, according to a CDP report. In 2013, 28 companies based or operating in the US disclosed that they use an internal carbon price in ... Read more »

Chevron CO2 Injection Wells to Cut GHG Emissions 40%

December 4, 2013December 4, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Chevron has started drilling carbon dioxide injection wells as part of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Western Australia, Oil & Gas Journal reports. The wells are expected to reduce the project’s greenhouse gas emissions by about 40 percent, the publication says. The CO2 injection project on Barrow Island, ... Read more »

90 Firms Responsible for Two-Thirds of Emissions

November 22, 2013November 22, 2013 by Leon Walker

Just 90 companies, including ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil and BP, are responsible for causing almost two-thirds of all man-made global emissions during the industrial era, according to research by the Climate Accountability Institute. These “carbon majors” include 50 investor-owned companies, 31 state-owned companies, and nine government-run industries in the former Soviet Union, China and ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: BP and Chevron Trials, Airliner Carbon, Ameren Sale

October 16, 2013October 16, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Anthony Badalamenti, former cementing technology director at Halliburton, formally pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to destroying evidence connected with the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Reuters reported. Meanwhile a federal court has extended the EPA’s deadline to respond to BP’s lawsuit challenging the freeze on new ... Read more »

GE, AT&T, Siemens Support Keystone XL

October 14, 2013October 14, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

A diverse group of over 150 companies, including AT&T, Motorola, Siemens, Volvo and Wyndham Worldwide, have urged President Obama to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Companies signing the letter include many one would expect – fossil fuel companies such as Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil and Shell; utilities such ... Read more »

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