Phillips Petroleum

From The Matrix

With 5,600 Phillips 66 outlets in the United States, Phillips Petroleum has sales of $21 billion a year. In February 2001, Phillips agreed to purchase Tosco in a merger that is expected to be completed late this year.

Black marks:�The National Response Center has listed Phillips Petroleum and Phillips 66 as the �suspected responsible party� in 942 oil spills, 542 of them in Texas alone. A lethal explosion at Phillips�s Pasadena, Texas, chemical plant killed 23 people and injured 130 in October 1989, resulting in fines of $4 million and 566 citations for �willful� violations from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. An explosion at the same plant in March 2000 killed one worker and injured 69, resulting in 50 allegations of safety-standards violations and $2.5 million in OSHA fines.

Phillips Petroleum is also one of the �Dirty Four� oil companies seeking to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Refining record:�Of the three Phillips refineries Environmental Defense evaluated, one ranked in the bottom 20 percent.

Green initiatives:�Phillips was honored in 1999 by the Texas Audubon Society for protecting bird populations and restoring their habitats and by the Oklahoma Nature Conservancy for helping preserve tallgrass prairie.

[taken from http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200109/hattam1.asp]