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Apple: What’s Eating America’s Favorite Tech Company?
In the year-and-a-half since Steve Jobs died, Apple has undergone a remarkable transformation. Shares of the world's most celebrated tech company have declined...
Exxon Mobil Must Pay $236M in NH Pollution Case
(CONCORD, N.H.) — A jury found Exxon Mobil liable Tuesday in a long-running lawsuit over groundwater contamination by the gasoline additive MTBE, and ordered the...
Blood For Oil
Look east from the Kurdish trenches on a dusty ridge outside the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk and you can see the cause of it all: a rudimentary oil field where...
Reading While Eating for August 7: Beatles and Bookworms
Athletic Gods: Sports have evolved from fighting for honor to fighting for a brand, argues author Stephen Amidon in his fascinating new book Something Like a...
Inside the Death Star -- Also Known as Exxon
Like all the Big Oil players now operating in the Gulf of Mexico, ExxonMobil was required to file a spill response plan with the Department of Interior that...
What You Should Know About Exxon Mobil’s Latest Ad Campaign
If you were watching the Masters golf tournament last weekend, you would have noticed it was laced with ads from Exxon Mobil calling for….better science. That’s...
Was a Libyan Oil Man's Death in Vienna Connected with Corruption Probes?
The body found floating in the Danube in Vienna on Sunday might have been the opening scene of a spy thriller: The dead man turned out to have been a pivotal...
Is Iraq Headed for a Crackup?
Patrick Cockburn, one of the best reporters now covering the Middle East, recently described the growing tensions in Iraq over the question of sharing its oil...
Apple Passes Exxon as Most Valuable Company in the World
It finally happened: Apple Inc. has passed Exxon Mobil Corp. to become the most valuable publicly traded company in the world. Though both companies saw their...
Will Exxon's Yellowstone Oil Leak Doom the Chances for a Tar Sands Pipeline?
ExxonMobil has been under a harsh spotlight over the last few days, facing accusations that the company has deliberately downplayed the severity of the...
Two Minute Video: HiPhone 5, Death to Facebook, Apple vs. Exxon
The HiPhone 5 beats the iPhone 5 to market, death threats against Facebook, Apple tops Exxon, and more: Here's a quick look back at some recent stories from the...
Groundhog Day: An Oil Giant Spins a Spill
Credibility is a precious thing. Oil giant ExxonMobil did not have much to begin with, but it went even deeper into its scarce reserves in the past few days when...
Another Oil Spill, as ExxonMobil Fouls Montana
Amid the fireworks, parades, and hot dogs of this past Fourth of July weekend was that sinking feeling of déjà vu when news broke that yet another oil spill was...
The Biggest Casualty of the Oil Spill: Mental Health
When the Exxon Valdez ran ashore in Prince William Sound in 1989, the immediate focus was on the damage that millions of gallons of oil might do to the pristine...
Dune Lankard: Scream of the Little Bird
It takes a special kind of courage to take a stand against your friends and neighbors--especially if you're a member of Alaska's proud Eyak Indian tribe. But...
Takeover Rumors: Why Would Anyone Want to Buy BP?
Who would want BP? Perhaps one of the least-loved companies in the world right now, the energy giant is spending more than $30 million a day trying to clean up...
Measuring the Spill: How the Government Did It
As BP's efforts to stanch the flow of oil gushing out of its collapsed rig in the Gulf of Mexico continue, there's not much for any of the world's giant...
The Gulf Oil Disaster: Who's Liable, and for How Much?
Who gets the bill for America's worst ever oil spill? No one yet knows. But Jody Freeman, founding Director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and...
Pump It Up: The Development of Iraq's Oil Reserves
In the spring of 2003, more than a million people marched through the streets of cities across Europe and the U.S. to rail against U.S. plans to invade Iraq...
Still Digging Up Exxon Valdez Oil, 20 Years Later
Twenty years since the Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground in southeastern Alaska on March 24, 1989, spreading an 11-million-gallon crude-oil inkblot into Prince...
