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Brazil Issues Criminal Charges Against Chevron

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Today Rainforest Action Network activists traveled to Chevron’s headquarters in San Ramon to issue an arrest warrant for Chevron CEO John Watson for international environmental and human rights crimes. The action came the day that Brazilian prosecutors filed criminal charges against Chevron executives after the company’s drilling operations caused an offshore oil spill that dumped thousands of gallons of oil into a fragile marine ecosystem.

Chevron Paid Thousands to Influence Government Trade Talks

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Friday, February 24, 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 24, 2012

Contact:  Ginger Cassady, Rainforest Action Network, 415-640-7155, ginger@ran.org

                 Robert Collier, Amazon Watch, 415-298-5726, rob@amazonwatch.org

Chevron Guilty Verdict Upheld by Ecuador Appellate Court

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

 

Second Chevron Oil Disaster in South America: Brazil

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO--Chevron's oil spill off the coast of Brazil, which is the company's second major environmental disaster in South America, highlights a disturbing pattern of negligence and gross corporate misconduct in key oil-producing nations in Latin America.

Chevron Challenged for Environmental Crimes at Golf Tournament

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Saturday, December 3, 2011

CONTACT
Kerul Dyer, 707.834.3358
Caroline Bennett,  510.520.9390

Thousand Oaks, CA – Today Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and Amazon Watch challenged Chevron Chairman and CEO John S. Watson with a high-flying demand that he clean up his company’s toxic mess in the Ecuadorian Amazon. An airplane banner will circle overhead for three hours on two days of the Chevron World Challenge golf tournament, calling on the executive to remediate the environmental disaster in Ecuador after three decades of contaminating the country's rainforest in reckless pursuit of profit.

The 5 Most Toxic Energy Companies and How They Control Our Politics

Four days after the April 5, 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia, the 300 family members keeping vigil finally learned that the last of the missing miners had been found and there were no survivors among them. The explosion killed 29 men, and severely injured one. The mine was run by Performance Coal Company, a subsidiary of Massey Energy. Massey's Chairman Bobby R.

The 5 Most Toxic Energy Companies and How They Control Our Politics
AlterNet
Sunday, November 20, 2011

Rainforest Action Network Statement on Chevron Oil Spill in Brazil

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Will Chevron avoid paying oil spill fines in Brazil as it is doing in Ecuador Amazon case? 

SAN FRANCISCO- Brazil's environmental agency said Monday it will fine Chevron nearly $28 million for a continuing oil spill off the Rio de Janeiro coast, and that the company could face several more similar fines in the coming days. Chevron, which has admitted responsibility for the November 7 spill, continues to face political backlash in Brazil for misleading statements about the size of the spill and its containment.

Chevron’s Legal Strategy Derailed, Ecuadoreans Score Major Victory in Amazon Pollution Case

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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Rainforest Action Network and Amazon Watch Statement

NEW YORK—Yesterday, a US court dealt Chevron a severe blow after lifting a ban on an $18bn judgment against the oil giant for contaminating the Amazon. A New York appeals court vacated a lower court's order that had blocked Ecuadorean plaintiffs from collecting money in a long-running lawsuit over pollution in their Amazon rainforest home.

In February, a judge in Ecuador ruled that Chevron should pay to clean up contamination in the oil fields where Texaco, bought by Chevron in 2001, once worked.

Inside the minds of corporate pranksters

Will the real Chevron please stand up?

When Chevron Corp. rolled out its multimillion-dollar "green" advertising campaign to address negative images of itself last fall, the oil giant hit on a fresh, self-effacing theme: "We Agree."

Inside the minds of corporate pranksters
The Sacramento Bee
Sunday, July 17, 2011

Activists' 'True Cost' report takes on Chevron

With Chevron Corp. set to hold its annual shareholder meeting this morning, a global network of the company's critics on Tuesday released a report accusing the oil giant of environmental crimes around the world.

Activists' 'True Cost' report takes on Chevron
San Francisco Chronicle
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

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