No Joke: Chevron Releases A New “Corporate Responsibility Report”
No, this is not the latest brilliant satirical piece written by the folks over at The Onion. Chevron really has just released a “Corporate Responsibility Report” to highlight “companywide [sic]…
Chevron Agrees: The RICO Suit Against Ecuadorean Plaintiffs And Their Lawyers Is Totally Bogus
From the get-go, we pointed out that the RICO suit Chevron filed against the Ecuadoreans suing the company for massive environmental pollution in the Amazon would be laugh-out-loud funny if…
Even Chevron CEO John Watson’s Neighbors Think He’s Wrong About Ecuador
We’ve barely heard anything from Chevron CEO John Watson since the historic judgment in Ecuador that found his company responsible for $18 billion worth of environmental and cultural damages in…
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…
Chevron Was Found Guilty Because Chevron Is Guilty
Chevron is guilty of dumping a massive amount of oil pollution in the Ecuadorean Amazon, and, as you may have heard, a judge has ordered the company to pay $8…
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…
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…