Businessweek Reports on Chevron’s Attempts to Obscure the Facts of the Case in Ecuador
If you’ve had a hard time following the epic legal battle between Chevron and the Ecuadorean plaintiffs suing the company for its oil pollution in the Amazon, you are probably…
Biased Judge in Chevron’s RICO Suit Gets Called Out
As oil giant Chevron has pursued its “distract, distort, and delay” strategy to evade responsibility for polluting Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, the company has found U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan to…
Get Crunk for the Amazon
Very few times in life does one get the opportunity to title anything “Get Crunk for the Amazon.” Well, today’s a banner day. Our homies at Critical Beats partnered with…
Chevron “In a League of Its Own” When It Comes To Pollution and Corporate Irresponsibility
We’re very focused on Chevron’s environmental pollution and human rights abuses down in Ecuador here at RAN, but it’s important to remember that Chevron is a multinational corporation that has…
Local Washington Residents Oppose Longview Coal Port
Concerned local residents turned out in force on Tuesday to demand that Cowlitz County, Washington officials revoke a shore permit for the proposed Longview coal export terminal. If built, the…
RAN’s Position On Hydrofracking
We have grown increasingly concerned about the prevalence of hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking,’ a technique used to mine natural gas. We’ve watched movies like Split Estate and Gasland, which explain…
Chicago for Clean Power
Guest blogger, Liz Nerat from RAN Chicago, writes about their campaign work to pass a Clean Power Ordinance and retire Fisk power plant in Chicago: At 8:00am on an unseasonably…
Kentucky Has Risen!
“Mountaintop removal is an act of aggression. Civil disobedience is an act of love.” – Terry Tempest Williams A mountaintop insurrection is underway in Kentucky, and it’s got be on…
Chevron is Guilty: Ecuadoreans Prevail in Historic Environmental Lawsuit
After a long and often bitter 18-year struggle, the Indigenous and rural Ecuadoreans suing Chevron to force the company to clean up its oil contamination in the Amazon have prevailed….
Chevron’s RICO Suit: An Exercise in High Satire?
Oh, the irony. Chevron filing a racketeering lawsuit against the impoverished Indigenous and campesino Amazon residents who are suing the oil giant in Ecuador for plundering their rainforest land over…