Business
Directors of Synthetic Fuels Corp. agreed in closed session Wednesday to draw up contracts providing more than $700 million in price supports and loan guarantees for three major synthetic fuels projects, it was learned.
Aug. 22, 1985
The award for an oil project in Texas was made by the Synthetic Fuels Corp. despite a supposed understanding with the White House that no grants would be approved until President Reagan decides whether he wants the agency abolished.
Sept. 25, 1985
World & Nation
Ecuador Indians to Sue Texaco: The class-action suit seeking $1 billion will be filed in New York today, charging that the fourth-largest U.S. oil company contaminated the Indians’ rain forest with crude oil wastes that exposed them to the risk of cancer, said Joseph Kohn, an attorney for the Indians.
Nov. 3, 1993
Politics
On one side are Hollywood celebrities, major environmental groups and a wealthy investment manager named Harold Arbit.
Oct. 25, 1990
Business: Green groups, corporations take a different tack: cooperation, not confrontation. Results are uneven.
July 18, 1999
Tucked out of sight of this no-nonsense fishing town, once the capital of Russian Alaska, the sprawling, smoky mill of the Alaska Pulp Corp. is rendering Sitka spruce into pulp as fast as its antiquated machinery will allow.
April 23, 1989
Greenpeace stages protest at Mattel office over Barbie packaging
June 8, 2011
Indigenous peoples in South America are taking on Big Oil over decades of environmental abuse.
March 29, 2008
Cleanup: Award is being used to buy and preserve a million acres, but at what price to Native Alaskans?
June 23, 1996
Opinion
The trillion trees initiative to reduce global warming is like someone trying to lose a lot of weight by taking daily walks without changing the daily diet.
Feb. 24, 2020