RAN members often ask us why we’re so crazy about plug-ins (a.k.a. Plug-in Hybrids, a.k.a. Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles, a.k.a. PHEVs). A new report from fellow environmental non-profit NRDC (a.k.a. Natural Resource Defense Council) and EPRI (a.k.a. Electric Power Research Institute) lays it out pretty well. Why we’re so crazy about acronyms is a different question.
Corporate ethics activists “The Yes Men” crashed the Gas and Oil Exposition 2007 in Calgary yesterday. Their presentation on “Vivoleum,” a new fuel source derived from the bodies of people killed by climate change, was going over pretty well until they showed this video. In it, former Exxon janitor Reggie Watts expresses his dying wish to be made into the candles that were passed out to oil executives at the event.
I think I speak for everyone here at RAN when I say this: Yes Men, you rock.
Via Boing Boing, Wired News.
San Ramon, Calif.-based Chevron Corporation may face a second ‘trial of the century’ after a San Francisco Federal judge ruled yesterday that a lawsuit accusing the oil giant of collusion with the Nigerian government in attacks that killed and wounded villagers protesting Chevron’s practices may proceed to trial in the U.S.
The lawsuit follows a high profile case coming to conclusion shortly in which Chevron may be expected to pay damages upwards of $6 billion dollars resulting from a class-action lawsuit brought by 30,000 plaintiffs in Ecuador demanding environmental remediation after years of wreckless oil pollution.
Hopefully these lawsuits will solidify the notion that any multinational corporation which chooses to ignore its responsibility to operate ethically throughout the world will be held accountable.
Read the San Francisco Chronicle article here: