FROM: climateprogress.org
Chevron's website as the ads suggest, you'll see this press release on the front page: Chevron Announces $15 Billion Share Repurchase Program. Delightful. The company's idea of being green is to launch a $15 million ad campaign touting its greenness while spending a stunning $15 billion buying back its own stock, rather than, say, investing the money in developing new sources of clean energy.
If you google "greenwashing Chevron" you'll find a lot of great information about just how "green" and "socially responsible" this company is. My new favorite is oilwatchdog.org. That site has a great story on Chevron's scorched-earth denial tactic against foreign environmental and human rights lawsuits, which begins: (read more…)
