| June 28, 2008 | - Farmers in Britain, under attack by fuel-poaching
gangs, were creating secure collective fuel-storage compounds for their red diesel, which is used to power tractors. In West Sussex a man named Jon Ward put dogs in his garden and razor wire on his fences to keep thieves away from his heating oil. “Let the bastards try it now,” he said. “Shotgun is also at the ready.”
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The Guardian
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| June 26, 2008 | - The Supreme Court determined that Exxon need pay only $507.5 million (about four days' worth of recent profits) of the $5 billion in punitive damages initially awarded to victims of the 1989 “Valdez” oil spill.
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CNN Money
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| June 22, 2008 | -
Oil reached a record $139.89 a barrel. Four Western companies met with Iraq's Oil Ministry to finalize no-bid contracts to tap Iraqi oil fields, and the Nigerian government distributed billions of dollars of windfall to corrupt state officials. Thirty-five countries and 25 oil companies met in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to try to fix global oil prices, which have caused strikes, riots, and inflation around the world. Many OPEC countries blamed speculators for the price increase, as did some representatives of oil companies and oil-dependent industries. United States Energy Secretary Sam Bodman blamed supply and demand, as did lobbyists for Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.
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ABC
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AFP via Google
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BBC
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NYT
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Jakarta Post
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NYT
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LAT
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WP
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AP via Mercury News
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WYTV Ohio
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Bloomberg
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| June 16, 2008 | - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia pledged to calm the world by raising his kingdom's oil production.
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Independent
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| May 21, 2008 | -
Oil rose above $130 a barrel.
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AP
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| May 6, 2008 | -
Oil exceeded $125 a barrel. Refined french-fry grease was 32 cents per pound, up 20 cents from 2006.
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Bloomberg
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BBC
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The Christian Science Monitor
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| February 8, 2008 | - Two independent studies concluded that biofuels were a threat to the planet.
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New York Times
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| September 16, 2007 | - A new British poll estimated that 1.2 million people had died so far in the war, and former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan wished that politicians would admit that the war was “largely about
oil.”
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Times
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Guardian
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| August 1, 2007 | - The price of oil reached a new high.
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AP via Yahoo!FINANCE
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| April 18, 2007 | - A Stanford study concluded that pollution from ethanol could be a worse health hazard than that from gasoline.
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San Francisco Gate
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| April 4, 2007 | -
Fidel Castro called American biofuel policy an “internationalization of genocide.”
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BBC News
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| March 23, 2007 | -
Oil reached $62 per barrel.
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Reuters UK
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| March 21, 2007 | -
Al Gore returned to Capitol Hill to testify that global warming is a planetary emergency. Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts called Gore a prophet, and Rep. John Dingell of Michigan addressed him as “Mr. President.” Joe Barton of Texas, the leading Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told Gore he was “totally wrong” and that, if need be, Republican lawmakers would stay late for an “all-out cat fight” with Democrats. Ralph Hall, also of Texas, speculated that Gore's attack on the energy industry could result in war “when and if OPEC nations abandon the U.S.A.,” and Roscoe Bartlett (R., Md.) said that he thought it was “probably possible to be a conservative without appearing to be an idiot.”
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AP vie Breitbart
Source 2:
Huffington Post
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| January 9, 2007 | - In the Persian Gulf, the USS Newport News, an American nuclear submarine, collided with the Mogamigawa, a Japanese
oil tanker.
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Boston Globe
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| January 9, 2007 | -
Vladimir Putin threatened to cut Russia's
oil production.
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Business Week
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| November 17, 2006 | - The price of oil stabilized.
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BBC News
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| September 21, 2006 | -
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking at the United Nations in New York, proclaimed his love for all the world's peoples, and suggested that the United States halt domestic fuel production and buy its energy from him “at a fifty percent discount.”
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BBC News
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| August 30, 2006 | -
Australian
brothels were offering clients discounts based on their gasoline bills.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo!
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| August 7, 2006 | - Light, sweet crude was trading at $76.98 per barrel.
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BBC News
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| June 27, 2006 | - It was revealed that Hillary Clinton's ancestors were English coal miners.
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Northern Echo
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| June 5, 2006 | -
Oil rose to $73 a barrel.
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AP via Drudge Report
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| June 2, 2006 | - The United States announced that it would join 5 other nations in demanding that Iran immediately suspend uranium-enrichment activities, although the country would in the future be allowed to develop some civilian nuclear technologies. Iran said it would refuse to engage in talks unless all conditions were dropped, and Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the United States could endanger its oil supply if it makes a “wrong move” toward Iran.
| Source 1:
The Washington Post
Source 2:
AP
Source 3:
The Daily Star
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| May 14, 2006 | - The Air Force, under orders from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, was researching alternative fuels for its jets. "Energy," said an Air Force representative, "is a national security issue."
| Source:
The New York Times
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| May 13, 2006 | - In Nigeria more than 150 people, some of them stealing fuel from a pipeline, died when the pipeline exploded. "By tomorrow," said a health commissioner, "we will dig a bigger ditch and bury them all."
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 11, 2006 | -
Gas in Venezuela was selling for $0.12 per gallon,
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| April 26, 2006 | - President George W. Bush pointed out that not drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was depriving the United States of one million barrels of oil per day, and it was reported that Iraq's
oil production had dropped by one million barrels per day since the U.S. invasion.
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The New York Times
Source 2:
Beat the Press
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| April 20, 2006 | -
Pawn-shop owners in Texas noted that more people were pawning their belongings in order to buy gas.
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CBS11TV.com
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| March 21, 2006 | - A ruptured British Petroleum oil pipeline in Alaska had leaked over 240,000 gallons of oil, much of it into the Arctic Ocean.
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The Independent via Commondreams
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| February 24, 2006 | - In Saudi Arabia, Al Qaeda attempted to bomb the Abqaiq oil facility but was thwarted. Two guards died in the attack.
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BBC News
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NineMSN
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| February 9, 2006 | - Author Michael Crichton received a journalism award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists for his novel State of Fear, which criticizes the theory of global warming. "It is fiction," said a spokesman for the petroleum geologists, "but it has the absolute ring of truth."
| Source:
The New York Times
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| February 3, 2006 | - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compared Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler because both Chavez and Hitler were elected legally and then "consolidated power." He also pointed out that Chavez has "a lot of oil money."
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MSNBC
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| January 31, 2006 | - During the State of the Union address President Bush announced that America is "addicted to oil" and vowed to replace "more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025." Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said that this promise was not meant to be taken literally. "This," he said, "was purely an example."
| Source 1:
The White House
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Knight Ridder
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| January 31, 2006 | -
ExxonMobil announced that it had a $36.1 billion profit in 2005, more than any company in any year ever, then announced that its profits were actually moderate. Royal Dutch Shell also reported record profits.
| Source 1:
The Seattle Times
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BBC News
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| January 30, 2006 | - U.S. auditors found that of $120 million in Iraqi
oil revenue allocated to fund reconstruction $97 million had gone missing.
| Source:
The Los Angeles Times
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| January 6, 2006 | -
oil rose to $64 a barrel.
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 3, 2006 | -
Russia shut down a natural-gas pipeline to Ukraine; as a result, natural-gas supplies were diminished in Hungary, France, Italy, Poland, and Germany.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 5, 2005 | - A conference on global warming was held in Montreal. The United States was represented by Harlan Watson, whose appointment as U.S. climate negotiator was suggested by ExxonMobil; Watson's presence led to complaints by environmentalists.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| November 25, 2005 | - State-controlled Venezuelan
oil company Citgo announced that it would provide over 11 million gallons of oil to poor people in Boston and New York.
| Source:
The Sydney Morning Herald
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| November 17, 2005 | - A White House document showed that executives from large oil firms met with Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force in 2001; the document was released a week after representatives from those firms testified before a Senate committee that they had not met with the task force.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| November 12, 2005 | -
Kuwait’s largest oil field began to run out of oil.
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AMEInfo.com
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| October 24, 2005 | - A new Swedish passenger train was being praised because it runs on the entrails of dead cows.
| Source:
BBC News
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| September 26, 2005 | - In the wake of Hurricane Rita, which damaged a number of oil refineries, President George W. Bush called on Americans to conserve gas. "I mean," he said, "people just need to recognize that the storms have caused disruption and that if they're able to maybe not drive when they--on a trip that's not essential, that would helpful."
| Source:
The White House
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| September 9, 2005 | - Up to 3.7 million gallons of crude oil leaked into the lower Mississippi River.
| Source:
Democracy Now!
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| August 31, 2005 | -
President Bush declared that U.S. troops needed to stay in Iraq to keep the country’s oil out of the hands of terrorists.
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The White House
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| August 29, 2005 | -
Oil prices reached $70.80 a barrel.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| July 22, 2005 | - Thirty-six people were killed in Yemen during riots over fuel prices.
| Source:
BBC News
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| July 15, 2005 | - Concern over storms in the Gulf of Mexico led to an increase in oil prices.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 29, 2005 | -
Venezuela opened a new branch of its state oil company in Cuba.
| Source:
Reuters
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| March 24, 2005 | - Fifteen people died in an explosion at a BP oil refinery in Texas.
| Source:
AP
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| March 21, 2005 | -
United States
gas prices reached a record high.
| Source:
Christian Science Monitor
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| March 16, 2005 | - The Senate passed a resolution that will permit drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| March 16, 2005 | - The Department of Homeland Security was preparing for: the detonation of a ten-kiloton nuclear device; a biological attack with aerosolized anthrax; an outbreak of pneumonic plague; a flu pandemic starting in south China; the spraying of a chemical blister agent over a football stadium; an attack on an oil refinery; the explosion of a tank of chlorine; a 7.2-magnitude earthquake; a major hurricane in a metropolitan area; three Cesium-137 dirty bombs going off in three different cities, each contaminating thirty-six city blocks; the detonation of improvised bombs in sports stadiums and emergency rooms; liquid anthrax in ground beef; a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak; and a cyber attack on the nation's financial infrastructure.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| February 18, 2005 | - Lawrence Rawl, head of Exxon during the Valdez spill, died from Alzheimer's.
| Source:
Contra Costa Times
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| February 17, 2005 | - A tanker spilled thirteen tons of oil into Tunisian waters.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 13, 2005 | -
Congress was once more casting its eye towards the oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| January 9, 2005 | -
Halliburton, operating through a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, was to start drilling for oilin Iran.
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 25, 2004 | -
Cuba discovered a new crude oil deposit off the coast near Havana.
| Source:
Newsday
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| December 15, 2004 | - The United Nations reported that there had been widespread smuggling of oil out of Iraq under the Coalition Provisional Authority,
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 22, 2004 | - A tanker spilled 44,909 gallons of oil off the coast of Newfoundland.
| Source:
CBC News
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| November 11, 2004 | - Scientists noted that Arctic warming could make it easier to find oil.
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 11, 2004 | - Shell Oil opened the first hydrogen refueling station in North America.
| Source:
Guardian
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| September 24, 2004 | -
Nigerian rebels threatened to attack oil wells in the Niger delta.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 24, 2004 | - Crude oil closed at $48.88 a barrel, a new record.
| Source:
Bloomberg
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| August 27, 2004 | -
Iraqi saboteurs attacked two oil pipelines.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 20, 2004 | -
Oil prices rose above $49.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| August 12, 2004 | - crude oil prices were at record levels.
| Source:
Forbes
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| August 7, 2004 | - fewer jobs were being created, crude oil prices reached a record high of $44.41,
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 3, 2004 | - analysts at Deutsche Bank warned that oil prices could rise to $100 a barrel.
| Source:
Scotsman
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| July 16, 2004 | - An audit of the Coalition Provisional Authority found that American officials did not know how much oil Iraq was producing or how oil revenues were being spent, and
| Source:
USA Today
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| June 16, 2004 | - Oil exports from Iraq's main oil terminal were shut down because of two explosions, at least one of which was caused by a bombing. Officials said that the cost of the shutdown could reach $1 billion.
| Source:
San Jose Mercury News
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| June 10, 2004 | - Iraqi militants attacked oil pipelines near Kirkuk.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 4, 2004 | -
Microsoft
patented the "double-click."
| Source:
New Scientist
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| May 23, 2004 | -
Oil prices were still near $40 a barrel, and OPEC rejected a Saudi Arabian proposal to increase oil production.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 13, 2004 | - Crude oil prices were over $40 a barrel.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 29, 2004 | - A federal judge tried for the third time to impose punitive damages on the Exxon Mobil Corporation for the Exxon Valdez oil spill fifteen years ago; Exxon Mobil said it would appeal the $4.5 billion judgment.
| Source:
New York Times
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