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Year later, California oil regulators unsure what caused worker death
PolitiCalNearly a year after a Kern County oil worker was sucked underground and boiled to death, state regulators still don’t know what caused the accident and have outsourced the investigation to two leading oil companies. On Monday, the Division of...... -
California relies on oil firms to probe worker's death
SACRAMENTO — Nearly a year after a Kern County oil worker was sucked underground and boiled to death, state authorities have turned to the two leading oil companies involved in the incident to investigate it. On Monday, the Division of Oil, Gas and...Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Politics, Companies and Corporations, Career and Workplace, Environmental Issues
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Bell hires as Rizzo replacement former El Segundo chief executive
L.A. NOWBell, the southeast Los Angeles County town that became linked with corruption after eight former leaders were arrested, Monday appointed a city manager who was fired earlier this year as chief executive in el Segundo. Doug Willmore was terminated as........ -
Review: 'Under African Skies' revisits Paul Simon's 'Graceland'
When Paul Simon's seminal album "Graceland" landed in 1986 with its intoxicating African rhythms and critical acclaim, it also came tainted by the apartheid controversy already swirling around it. The excellent new documentary "Under African Skies"...
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In Bangladesh, Hillary Clinton urges political reconciliation
NEW DELHI — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday urgedBangladesh's squabbling political factions to resolve their differences as she arrived in the country, which has been beset by weeks of general strikes, demonstrations and...
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In Bangladesh, Clinton to focus on democracy and development
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Refinery closures end streak of gas price declines in California
California's streak of seven straight weeks of gasoline price declines has ended, victimized by widespread refinery maintenance shutdowns that have reduced fuel supplies by nearly a third compared with a year ago, according to state statistics. Four of...
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Big Oil reigns atop Fortune 500
With energy prices high, Big Oil rules atop the Fortune 500, helping to put Texas just a hair behind California as home to the highest-revenue corporations -- 52 firms, compared with the Golden State's 53. The magazine's latest list of mega-enterprises,...
Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Companies and Corporations, ConocoPhillips, Walt Disney, Science and Technology
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Apple still hasn't cracked the top 10 on Fortune 500 list
Apple Inc. is the world's most valuable company, potentially the best known brand on Earth, could pull in $50 billion in profit this year and has seen its stock price increase nearly 500% since 2007. Yet when it comes to the Fortune 500 list, Apple isn't...
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Higher oil prices give Chevron Corp. a 4.2% profit gain
Chevron Corp. saw a first-quarter profit rise of 4.2% to $6.47 billion, or $3.27 per share. That compared with $6.21 billion, or $3.09 per share, a year earlier. Sales for the world's third-largest publicly traded oil company were up just slightly to $60....
Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Natural Gas, Energy Resources, Companies and Corporations, Environmental Issues
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Chevron reports profit up 4.2%
Chevron Corp. said first-quarter profit rose 4.2% as rising oil prices offset falling natural gas prices.
Net income for the first three months of the year increased to $6.47 billion, or $3.27 a share, from $6.21 billion, or $3.09,a year earlier, the San...Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Natural Gas, Companies and Corporations, Earnings Forecasts, Environmental Issues
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California schools harness sunshine to cut energy costs
To plug in to solar energy, you need photovoltaic cells, controllers, inverters, combiner boxes and plenty of copper wiring.
Oh yes — and a compass.
Workers at Valencia High School found that out when they installed solar power arrays facing the...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, Finance, Alternative Energy
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