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…
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’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…
Fruit Pollutes More Than Coal?
It may seem like a silly question: Can fruit cause more pollution than coal? But from the perspective of Indonesian waterways, the answer is most certainly yes. According to Mukri…
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…
Diego Borja’s Latest Dirty Trick For Chevron
Perhaps you saw the news last week that Chevron’s self-described “dirty tricks guy” in Ecuador, Diego Borja, has fled California to evade being served with a subpoena. I feel compelled…