Originally posted at chevroninecuador.com:

We've written before about the motley crew of bloggers who fervently defend Chevron in its ongoing effort to run from a multibillion dollar liability for environmental disaster in Ecuador. Chevron is certainly not an easy company to stick up for, given its...

(Originally posted at chevroninecuador.com)

Update: Judge Nunez has decided to recuse himself from the trial in order to clear the path for the legal proceedings to continue uninterrupted. read the statement HERE

OK, in the interest of full disclosure, there's no sex (fortunately). But...

We love Andy Rooney and he gets mad at a lot of things (like iPhones or Ali G). But now he turns his anger at sleazy lawyers, sleazy journalists, and one of the world's sleaziest corporations.

Along the banks of Brazil's Madeira River, the rusty remnants of the Madeira-Mamoré railroad, built a century ago to run steam engines from Porto Velho to Guajará-Mirim in Bolivia, lay in ruins. Built at great human, environmental, and financial cost, the railway attests to the spectacular failure in introducing appropriate...

Every year, as if it's tradition, Chevron lobbies the US Government to pull all of Ecuador's trade preferences given to it by the United States. The preferences, called the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA), are intended to help Ecuador boost its economy by granting duty-free access to the US...

(Originally posted at Chevron in Ecuador)

Sooner of later, no matter how much you try to pretty it up, the neighbors are going to smell that tremendous mountain of decaying garbage you've been hiding in the backyard for more than three decades. Nowadays everyone seems to be smelling Chevron's...

I grew up with family tales about the unique beauty of Ecuador. My father's family made their living on tourism in the Andes, the Galapagos, and the Amazon. Sadly, what was to us a mysterious and majestic example of the wonder of creation was merely a dumping ground to Texaco....