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(1) Comments | Posted November 14, 2014 | 1:15 PM
Chevron, Chevron Quite Contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow
With Polluted Soil & Toxic Water
And Healthy Lawyers All in a Row
During the historic contamination trial against Chevron in Ecuador, the company often took journalists to its so-called "remediated" oil pits to prove its predecessor Texaco...
Chevron Will Lose Ecuador Pollution Case on Both Law and FactsWith Polluted Soil & Toxic Water
And Healthy Lawyers All in a Row
During the historic contamination trial against Chevron in Ecuador, the company often took journalists to its so-called "remediated" oil pits to prove its predecessor Texaco...
Prediction: Chevron will lose the historic Ecuador pollution case on both the law and the facts, despite what you may have read in articles by U.S. legal reporters about the 20-year plus lawsuit.
In fact, you may think the Ecuadorians have lost already. They haven't.
If you...
In fact, you may think the Ecuadorians have lost already. They haven't.
If you...
How Chevron's Scientists Misled Courts and Public About Death and Disease in Ecuador
"Scientists...involved in developing public health and environmental protections recognize we do not need (and we almost never obtain) proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Waiting for absolute certainty is a recipe for failure: People will die, and the environment will be damaged if we wait for absolute proof...
False Testimony Forced Chevron To 'Prep' Its Million-Dollar Witness For 50 Days in Ecuador Case
Just when you thought the long-running and bitter Chevron/Ecuador legal battle could not get any more bizarre, it does.
Legal briefs recently filed in a U.S. court revealed that for 50 days Chevron lawyers prepped their million dollar star witness about a bribe alleged in the oil giant's retaliatory RICO lawsuit...
Legal briefs recently filed in a U.S. court revealed that for 50 days Chevron lawyers prepped their million dollar star witness about a bribe alleged in the oil giant's retaliatory RICO lawsuit...
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Chevron: Release The Secret Evidence That Proves Your Guilt In Ecuador
Will Mississippi GOP Return Political Favor to Black Voter?
On a Saturday afternoon in the fall of 1984, a few weeks before the November election of that year, a white man walked into the Greenville, Mississippi campaign office of Robert Clark, the first black person to win a Democractic congressional nomination in Mississippi since Reconstruction.
As the press secretary...
As the press secretary...
In the wake of a controversial U.S. court ruling that a $9.5 billion Ecuador judgment against Chevron is fraudulent, the oil giant has been touting loudly its innocence of any environmental crimes in the South American country.
Chevron's lawyers even successfully pressured some CBS News corporate suits to yank a...
New Report Confirms Texaco’s Massive Contamination of Ecuador Rainforest & Chevron’s Effort to Mislead CourtChevron's lawyers even successfully pressured some CBS News corporate suits to yank a...
Posted June 2, 2014 | 10:00 AM
A highly respected U.S. environmental engineering firm recently found illegal and dangerous levels of contaminated soil and drinking water at well sites in the Ecuadorian rainforest, where only Texaco, now owned by Chevron, operated from 1964 to 1992.
The findings by the New Jersey-based Louis Berger Group (LBG) are similar to findings released in dozens of earlier expert reports during an eight-year Ecuador trial that documented massive contamination by Texaco...
The findings by the New Jersey-based Louis Berger Group (LBG) are similar to findings released in dozens of earlier expert reports during an eight-year Ecuador trial that documented massive contamination by Texaco...
Chevron's Ecuador Plan B
The big news this week in the Chevron-Ecuador saga is the Patton Boggs settlement with the oil giant, which should not be shocking to anyone following the financial troubles of the law firm.
Patton Boggs' money problems began before the Ecuadorians fighting Chevron retained its lawyers to represent them...
Patton Boggs' money problems began before the Ecuadorians fighting Chevron retained its lawyers to represent them...
U.S. Chevron Ruling: One-Sided Justice for Ecuadorians
It was unsettling, to say the least, to be called an "extortionist," "liar" and "criminal," during seven weeks of litigation in a U.S. federal courtroom, where Chevron dominated a show trial against some of the poorest and most disenfranchised people in the world, indigenous tribes in Ecuador.
Now comes a...
Now comes a...
Why Fix Something Not Broken?
Ever since the federal government took control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Congress has put several plans on the table to "fix" them -- with the exception of one: Let them operate the way they always have, only this time, regulate them properly and ensure they have sufficient capital...
Lost In Translation: Justice for the Ecuadorian Villagers in Chevron's Retaliatory RICO Trial
Julio Gomez, a Columbia-born American lawyer, stunned a New York courtroom where Chevron is trying to attack a $9 billion Ecuador judgment against it for dumping toxic waste into the Amazon.
When Gomez began his closing remarks in Spanish on behalf of the Ecuadorian villagers who won the judgment,...
When Gomez began his closing remarks in Spanish on behalf of the Ecuadorian villagers who won the judgment,...
Chevron Ecuador Case Shows Limits of Legal System
Nothing better demonstrates how ineffective the judiciary can be at righting wrongs than the $19 billion legal battle over Texaco's massive oil contamination of the Ecuadorian rainforest from 1964 to 1990.
Since 1993, at least two dozen courts in five countries have heard evidence about the case. Chevron, which bought...
Since 1993, at least two dozen courts in five countries have heard evidence about the case. Chevron, which bought...
Chevron Looks For 'Any Opening to Discredit' $19 Billion Ecuador Judgment, New York Times Writes
For the past eight weeks, the New York Times has been researching a story about an American lawyer who has helped fight one of the most important environmental lawsuits in history -- a 20-year battle for justice brought by a group of Ecuadorian indigenous and farmer communities against Texaco for...
Next Time You're on the Phone With Your Bank, Take a Minute to Gripe About the Swipe, Too
I rarely carry cash, and I am not alone.
Many Americans from coast to coast are saying goodbye to cash and hello to a debit card. I whip out my debit card for everything from a $1 candy bar to $200 in groceries. I am a serial debit card...
Many Americans from coast to coast are saying goodbye to cash and hello to a debit card. I whip out my debit card for everything from a $1 candy bar to $200 in groceries. I am a serial debit card...
Stepping up the Pressure on Payday Lending
Now, nearly two years after his nomination as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray has been confirmed finally and can now step up his game even more on policing the financial services industry.
In addition to holding banks and financial firms accountable, he has the opportunity...
In addition to holding banks and financial firms accountable, he has the opportunity...
Words Matter: Mario Cuomo's 1984 Tale of Two Cities Relevant to Today's Politics of Disappointment
At the recent unveiling of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo's portrait in the Governors Hall at the State Capitol, I recalled the first time I heard him speak. The elder Cuomo, after two decades of resisting, finally gave into his family's urging to follow tradition and allow the hanging...
Chevron Hides Behind Legal Fiction; Ecuador Fight Far From Over
Supporters of the heroic 20-year effort to hold Chevron accountable for its indisputable toxic dumping and destruction of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador should not despair over recent court rulings that have slowed the seizing of the oil giant's assets in Argentina and Canada.
The fight is far from...
The fight is far from...
A Few More Words About Women and Work
After watching the HBO documentary Manhunt about the CIA analysts tracking al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, I asked everyone I could if they knew the analysts had all been women, and not just the character Maya in the Zero Dark Thirty movie. I thought maybe I had missed something, but...
Chevron in Ecuador: U.S. Oil Company Spies on Latin American Country to Escape Multi-Billion Court Judgment
Reports of China's involvement in spying on U.S. corporations have generated debate in this country about how to punish its government and prevent the theft of valuable American trade secrets. But what if it were the reverse? What if a U.S. corporation spied on a sovereign nation to undermine its...
Banks Are Holding Us Hostage
A Republican president allowed banks to screw us royally, and a Democratic one is letting them get away with it.
I just put down The New York Times and am thoroughly depressed, after reading about how banks not only ripped off homeowners by making abusive loans, ripped off the...
I just put down The New York Times and am thoroughly depressed, after reading about how banks not only ripped off homeowners by making abusive loans, ripped off the...
The Grand Bargain Needs to Be a Whole Lot Grander
The negotiations to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff have been described as a "grand bargain," but from where I sit it seems more like a big bust and a lot of lost opportunities. There's nothing grand about cutting spending and raising revenues when 12 million Americans are out of work....
BP Held Accountable For U.S. Deaths and Oil Spill While Chevron Remains Fugitive From Justice In Ecuador
The U.S. Department of Justice is holding BP, the UK-based oil company, accountable for the 11 deaths and environmental damage resulting from its 2010 accidental oil spill. But what about the U.S.-based oil company Chevron, which is refusing to pay a $19 billion judgment in Ecuador for intentional oil contamination...
We're in the Mood for Debate!
The American people are in the mood for debate mostly because our president wasn't.
It's likely more people than ever will watch Tuesday's night debate just to see if President Obama will be in a good or bad mood. And, that's reason enough.
I like my politicians to...
It's likely more people than ever will watch Tuesday's night debate just to see if President Obama will be in a good or bad mood. And, that's reason enough.
I like my politicians to...
Land Grab by Big Banks and Big Investors Is Deal Made in Hell
Take news about rising bank profits (see here) and combine it with reports about land grabs by private equity firms (here and here), and you've got a deal made in hell.
You can bet working schmucks like you and me won't be invited to...
You can bet working schmucks like you and me won't be invited to...
From Ecuador to Richmond to Nigeria, Chevron Flouts Safety, Lacks Respect for Communities Where It Operates
Want to understand the back story for Chevron's latest environmental disaster in Richmond, California?
Read this article about how Chevron essentially forced 154 of its Nigerian workers to jump from a smoking oil rig minutes before it exploded into the ocean after the company refused to evacuate them....
Read this article about how Chevron essentially forced 154 of its Nigerian workers to jump from a smoking oil rig minutes before it exploded into the ocean after the company refused to evacuate them....
