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…
Help Expose Chevron’s Human Rights Hitmen
Chevron’s latest bullying legal tactic is a RICO suit filed in a U.S. federal court against the Indigenous and rural Ecuadoreans who are attempting to force the company to clean…
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…
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…
The Raging Grannies Show a Reporter from China What Free Speech Means in America
The Change Chevron team recently went down to Lafayette, CA to congratulate Chevron CEO John Watson on his company’s induction into the Corporate Hall of Shame, and the Bay Area…
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…