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Top 20 colleges for computer science majors, based on earning potential
2013-09-18 14:17:07| InfoWorld: Top News
California is home to the top five computer science schools in the U.S., according to a new salary-centric report from PayScale.The research company ranked 129 college majors based on the median pay for alumni from 1,016 schools (see related story, Computer science major ranks No. 8 for salary earning potential).
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China oil majors fail to meet pollution standards
2013-08-30 05:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Environmental regulators have taken the unusual step of blocking China's two biggest oil producers from expanding their refining capacity after they failed to meet targets for reducing pollution. The penalties for PetroChina and Sinopec are a fresh blow to China's state-owned oil industry following this week's announcements that four senior executives are under investigation for unspecified offenses. Such penalties are unusual in China, where critics complain regulators ignore environmental...
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Oil majors trapped in cycle of spending more but finding less
2013-08-11 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: For the oil majors, quarterly results were once a ticker-tape parade. Last week, they were more like a walk of shame. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, and Total all suffered a drop in earnings year-on-year. Oil and gas output for all, bar Total, contracted, despite big hikes in capital spending. Costs were up and returns down even with oil prices at more than $100 a barrel. Companies that just a few years ago bestrode the corporate world like colossi are now in the doghouse, unloved...
Reformed Taxation Could Hurt Majors, Independents
2013-05-24 16:30:00| OGI
Experts worry about measures to strip deductions from energy companies.
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General Wesley Clark accuses oil majors of trying to kill off biofuels industry
2013-03-13 14:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The biofuels industry must join together to combat the negative "studies and misinformation" funded by the trillion dollar oil industry, according to former NATO commander General Wesley Clark. In an extraordinary tirade, Clark, who now serves as co-chair of US biofuels specialist Growth Energy, accused global oil majors of actively undermining the biofuels industry, even though many oil companies now have business units dedicated to the technology. "You're going against the largest industry...
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