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...Chevron Shipping Company...
Last year the Justice Department prosecuted both Chevron Oil Co. for spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Power & Light Co. for dumping hot water into Biscayne Bay. Detroit reeled after the Clean Air Act mandated pollution-free cars by 1975 ?an order that automakers called technically impossible and downright absurd...
...dimension" that Nixon ascribed to all his department heads. Only days after he took office, an oil blowout began fouling the waters of the Santa Barbara Channel. Hickel refused to order the drilling stopped, then visited the scene and reversed his decision. Later he prompted costly lawsuits against the Chevron Oil Co. after oil fires along the Louisiana coast. Said Hickel: "I found the man who pulled the plug." At Hickel's instigation, the Justice Department also sued eight companies accused of contaminating navigable waters with mercury. Despite a parochial interest in seeing a trans-Alaska pipeline laid...
...commission directed Coca-Cola to stop advertising its Hi-C drink as particularly rich in vitamin C and "uniquely suitable" for children, because, said the FTC, it is neither a "sensible" nor economical source of nutrition. Also, the FTC ordered Standard Oil of California to quit promoting its Chevron F-310 as a nonpolluting gasoline, because, the commission contended, it contained only ordinary detergent used by many refiners. Unlike past FTC orders, these two require that any ad making such claims for either product during the next year must prominently include the FTC allegations. Officials at Coca-Cola and California...
Shell, Esso, Chevron and Amoco make ambitious claims. Esso's Big Plus is touted as "the lowest-lead, highest-octane gasoline for the money," and Chevron boasts that its F-310 fuel will "reduce fuel consumption, improve performance and cut maintenance." Ethyl Corp., which pioneered the use of lead compound additives for autos in 1923 and saw its stock jump in the 1950s when Detroit moved to high-compression engines, contends that by taking the lead out of gasoline, oil companies will actually increase other forms of noxious automobile emissions...