For many in this coastal town, the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster was an event so crushing that hard-bitten fishermen still get teary-eyed recalling ruined livelihoods, broken marriages and suicides. ...more

February 26, 2008

Exxon Mobil Corp. posted the largest annual profit by a U.S. company - $40.6 billion - on Friday as the world's biggest publicly traded oil company benefited from historic crude prices at the end of the year. ...more

February 2, 2008

Exxon Mobil Corp. posts the largest annual profit by a U.S. company with $40.6 billion. ...more

February 2, 2008

Oil futures fell Thursday as investors, expecting an ongoing price slide, sold to lock in profits from the previous session's big gains. ...more

December 14, 2007

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has a 15-cent price tag stuck to his Yale law degree, blaming the school's affirmative action policies in the 1970s for his difficulty finding a job after he graduated. ...more

October 22, 2007

Fred Palensar of Holiday says Charley Reese was correcting in quoting David Rockefeller about the lack of leaders in American. Rockefeller and his family control the country, Palensar says. ...more

October 13, 2007

A $4.6 billion settlement on Tuesday by one of the last holdouts among polluting power companies signals the end of a long legal debate over acid rain - and a tougher battle ahead over carbon dioxide and the use of fossil fuels. ...more

October 9, 2007

One of the nation's largest power generators has agreed to end a yearslong federal lawsuit by paying $4.6 billion to reduce pollution that has eaten away at Northeast mountain ranges and national landmarks, The Associated Press has learned. ...more

October 9, 2007