Exxon-Led Group Is Giving a Climate Grant to Stanford. Four big international companies will give Stanford University $225 million over 10 years for research on ways to meet growing energy needs without worsening global warming. By Andrew C. Revkin. [New York Times: Science]
Which, as one environmental campmaigner points out (in the article), is a fraction of a percent of the $100 Billion Exxon/Mobil plans to spend on oil & gas exploration over the next decade.