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• Bipartisan Dining With the Devil?

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Bipartisan, Dining, The, Devil, Charles Schumer, Patrick Leahy, Rahm Emanuel, Dalai Lama, John Murtha, Ray Lahood, Michael Mukasey, Bp Plc, Federal Election Commission, California, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Brad Ellsworth, Doc Hastings, Fred Upton, Heath Shuler, Jo A

  What's up with this bipartisanship fad? Last week it was the Senate majority and minority leaders, Sens. Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), all playing nice at the McConnell Center in Louisville. Now we learn that Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) has been cozying up with the very people...

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• BP Settles Cases for $373 Million

  Published: October 26, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Settles, Cases, For, 373, Million, Bp Plc, Alaska, Texas, Granta Nakayama, Peter Keisler, Robert Malone, United States, U S Postal Service, Chicago, Europe, London, North America, Prudhoe Bay, Texas City, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, National Fish Wildlife Founda

  Global energy giant BP agreed yesterday to pay $373 million to settle criminal and civil charges that it overcharged U.S. propane consumers by millions of dollars and ignored warnings before an oil spill in Alaska and a deadly explosion in Texas.

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• Familiar Back and Forth With Oil Executives

  Published: April 2, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Familiar, Back, And, Forth, With, Oil, Executives, Exxon Mobil Corporation, United States, Ed Markey, Jeroen Van Der Meer, Peter J Robertson, Chevron Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Bp Plc, Candice Miller, Capitol Hill, J Stephen Simon, John D Hofmeister, John Larson

  It's becoming a rite of spring. Gasoline prices climb. Members of Congress fume. And oil executives make the trek to Capitol Hill to do battle over who's to blame.

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• Familiar Back and Forth With Oil Executives

  Published: April 2, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Familiar, Back, And, Forth, With, Oil, Executives, Exxon Mobil Corporation, United States, Ed Markey, Jeroen Van Der Meer, Peter J Robertson, Chevron Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Bp Plc, Candice Miller, Capitol Hill, J Stephen Simon, John D Hofmeister, John Larson

  It's becoming a rite of spring. Gasoline prices climb. Members of Congress fume. And oil executives make the trek to Capitol Hill to do battle over who's to blame.

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• Familiar Back and Forth With Oil Executives

  Published: April 2, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Familiar, Back, And, Forth, With, Oil, Executives, Exxon Mobil Corporation, United States, Ed Markey, Jeroen Van Der Meer, Peter J Robertson, Chevron Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Bp Plc, Candice Miller, Capitol Hill, J Stephen Simon, John D Hofmeister, John Larson

  It's becoming a rite of spring. Gasoline prices climb. Members of Congress fume. And oil executives make the trek to Capitol Hill to do battle over who's to blame.

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• Rebuffing The Rockefellers

  Published: May 29, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Rebuffing, The, Rockefellers, David Rockefeller, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Standard Oil Company, Peter O Neill Executive, Rex Tillerson, Bp Plc, Dallas, Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, United States, New Jersey, Barclays Plc, Chevron Corporation, Environment Institute, Jp Morga

  Exxon Mobil yesterday fended off a revolt by descendants of company founder John D. Rockefeller Sr. at the firm's annual meeting in Dallas and defeated a shareholder resolution that would have divided the jobs of chairman and chief executive, now both held by Rex W. Tillerson.

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