At Exxon Meeting, a Storm Outside but Calm Within
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Any company that rings up $39.5 billion in profit, as Exxon Mobil did last year, is liable to take some flak from consumers and politicians but can usually count on the support of its shareholders.
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Exxon Mobil says it is slowly removing contamination from a 1950 oil spill in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, but some say the efforts are a bare minimum.
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Crude oil in New York traded near a record high as US producers in the Gulf of Mexico struggled to restore output cut by Hurricane Ivan at a time when refiners are trying to build up winter-fuel supplies.
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The world came together to solve the climate change crisis, and dragged along the U.S., kicking and screaming
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By THE DENVER POST The Rocky Mountains' recent cold and snow has put a chill on natural gas production.
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Oil prices remain around the $82-a-barrel mark, over fears a storm may develop in the Gulf of Mexico.
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While the rest of the country frets over surging energy prices, a small but growing group of businesses is fueling a boom of sorts in the US oil patch.
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In the wake of the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989, Congress enacted legislation and oil companies implemented new regulations to ensure that such an environmental disaster would never happen again.
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A lively and sometimes scrappy debate on whether global warming is fueling bigger and nastier hurricanes like Katrina is adding an edge to a gathering of forecasters here.
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Oil steadied above $65 a barrel on   Tuesday, taking a breather from a six-day retreat after Iran   sounded a softer note on its atomic program and OPEC agreed to   keep production steady for now.
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Despite a tropical storm and a tropical depression spinning in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, no storms currently threaten the U.S. oil and natural gas production in the northern Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.
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Not ready, at least for the thin air where champions or even playoff teams hang out at this juncture in the season. A pair of 2-0 teams met at Ford Field Sunday, and as you may have expected
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Authorities struggled Saturday against adverse weather conditions to determine the extent of an oil spill from a Malaysia-flagged cargo vessel that foundered in frigid waters off Alaska&#39;s Aleutian Islands.
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A third of the countryâs oil refineries have reported disruptions like fires, power failures, leaks, spills and breakdowns this year.
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Sunday dawned bright and cloudless across the eastern United States as communities up and down the seaboard struggled to recover from Hurricane Ivan.
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With dwindling oil supplies, pollution concerns and the ever-present threat of gas prices soaring again, talk of new and better ways to fuel our cars, heat and cool our homes, and power our factories has never been greater. What's more, the conversation is emanating increasingly from a source that's been surprisingly quiet until recently &#151; the oil companies themselves.
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If Exxon Mobil doesnât learn to talk more straightforwardly about its beliefs, it will never stop being the worldâs whipping boy.