Corporate Wellsprings of Big Lies AT&T and ExxonMobil Among Biggest Donors to Trump-Backed Candidates
Texas corporations including AT&T and Valero among biggest donors to election-denying candidates A new study shows that corporate PACs have f
Big Oil is Pumping Big Donations to the Campaigns of GOP Insurrectionists
REWARDING THE SEDITION CAUCUS: WHY BIG OIL IS SO HAPPY TO GIVE GOP INSURRECTIONISTS CAMPAIGN FUNDING
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It’s Time For Charles Koch To Testify About His Climate Change Disinformation Campaign
The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campai
Big Oil Hit with Big Lawsuits from Cities & States
Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades. Now they may pay the price Via an unprecedented wave of lawsuits, America’s petroleum giants face a re
Big Oil Greases the Palms of Myanmar’s Vicious Military Junta
Chevron under fire for supporting Myanmar military, rights groups say Dozens of protesters gather outside Chevron offices around the country demandi
Note to Exxon Lying About Climate Change Isn’t Free Speech—It’s Fraud
Facing hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages, the fossil-fuel giant is trying to change the subject. MAY 5, 2016 When in trouble, change th
The Untold Story of the Texaco Oil Tycoon Who Loved Fascism (The Nation)
Also see: The oil man and his dictators: Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco and the forgotten fascist history of Texaco Franco’s fuel supplier didn’t
How Charles Koch Backed the John Birch Society at the Height of Its Attacks on Martin Luther King
January 18, 2016 As noted in the new book, Dark Money, by The New Yorker's Jane Mayer, Charles and David Koch have spent millions on public relations
Father of Koch Brothers Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery, Book Says (NY Times)
January 11, 2016 The father of the billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch helped construct a major oil refinery in Nazi Germany that was personally app
Exxon Knew About The Scientific Reality Of Climate Change In 1981
"... As recently as February 2015, a New York Times exposé revealed that a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who routinely cas
This Bloomberg Contributor Attacking Renewable Energy Is Paid For By Big Oil
Bloomberg Turns To Manhattan Institute's Robert Bryce To Attack Renewable Energy And Promote Oil And Nuclear Bloomberg Has Published Several Op-Eds By Robe
The Saga of Koch Industries
Koch Industries owed its creation to Fred C. Koch (1900-1967), a chemical engineer who developed a new cracking method for the refinement of heavy oil into
Big Oil’s ‘Dr. Evil’ is Running Campaign to Sell Off America’s Public Lands
With a series of four nearly identical op-ed articles written by one of its front groups and published in western newspapers last week, the oil industry an
How Big Oil Gets Respected Scientists To Lie
March 21, 2015 By the 1950s, Big Tobacco knew smoking caused cancer. By the 1960s, the companies knew nicotine was addictive and that smoking c
Kentucky Oil Operator Admits Role in Multi-Million Dollar Securities Fraud Scheme
Mark Cornell faces maximum of 20 years in prison FRANKFORT, Ky. (March 10, 2015) — A central Kentucky oil operator has admitted to his role in a sch
Big Oil’s $3 Billion Homage To A Nazi War Criminal
Ships don’t come bigger than the Pieter Schelte. They don’t come more controversial either. Built in Korea at a cost of nearly $3 billion, the gargant
Alaskan Town Sues Koch-Owned Oil Refinery Over Water Contamination
December 7, 2014 The Christmas season probably isn’t the best time to be the subject of a lawsuit for polluting North Pole. The city of North Pole, Ala
How Big Oil Won the Mid-Term Elections
The Republican victory in the US midterms was paid for by big energy interests and could hold back Obama’s climate ambitionThe resounding Republican
Voters Have Entrusted Climate Policy to Vehement Climate Change Denier
"... What he calls a 'conspiracy' is more a threat to the future of the big oil and gas companies that have been the most generous contributors to Mr. Inho
Bircher Nelson Bunker Hunt, Second Son of Wildcatter H.L. Hunt, Dies at 88
"... Many noted that his personal spending habits were as conservative as his politics, which included a leadership role in the John Birch Society. ..." O