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…
Ecuadorean Plaintiffs Reject Chevron’s Bullying
At this point, Chevron’s legal strategy in Ecuador has been described many ways: it’s been called a “smear campaign,” it uses “scorched earth tactics,” it amounts to what you might…
Dear Citi: You Have a Responsibility
Last week we got the news that Alpha Natural Resources had bought out Massey Energy, in a deal worth over $7 billion that creates the largest mountaintop removal coal mining…
In Chevron RICO Suit Against Amazonians, Who’s The Real Gangster?
This post originally appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle’s City Brights blog. Have you ever seen the movies Erin Brokovich or The Rainmaker? Basic plotline: evil company dumps poison into…
Goodbye Massey and Thanks For Nothing
After months of speculation, Massey Energy, the most controversial coal mining company in the USA, is no more. On Saturday Alpha Natural Resources announced that it had bought out the…
Chevron: Adding Insult to Injury, One Scam at a Time
If you’ve been following the dramatic turns of the historic class action environmental lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador, then you’re aware of Chevron’s aggressive public relations and legal campaign to…
The Countdown to a Verdict in Ecuador Has Begun
The plaintiffs have submitted their final arguments — known as an “alegato” in Spanish — to the court in Lago Agrio, Ecuador, citing the “overwhelming” evidence of Chevron’s culpability for…