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Atchison Village seems like a great place to live. It's a pleasant neighborhood in California. But there's a downside: this town has a bad neighbor, and it's the third-largest corporation in the world.
Kerry Kennedy | Posted 11.04.2009 | Home
I had heard about what has been called "Chevron's Chernobyl in the Amazon" for years. But nothing could prepare me for the horror I witnessed this week in Ecuador.
Antonia Juhasz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green
On Sunday, Chevron became the first oil company to come under a Yes Men Audience Attack. Chevron was chosen because it's different from other oil companies.
Howard Glaser | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
When it comes to corporate conspiracy tales, The Insider's recounting of Big Tobacco's skullduggery in covering up the addictive qualities of nicotine set a high bar.
Han Shan | Posted 10.31.2009 | Green
To defend itself in a major environmental lawsuit in Ecuador, it appears that American oil giant Chevron is employing methods -- and people -- that are as dirty as the toxic waste pits it left scattered across the rainforest floor.
Michael Brune | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green
As Joe Berlinger's Crude continues to rack up favorable reviews, a captivating email back-and-forth has been revealed between Trudie Styler and executives at Chevron.
Michelle Kraus | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
As they marshal the forces of good at the Clinton Global Initiative to help alleviate the atrocities leveled against the people and lands of Ecuador, let the games begin.
Michael Brune | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
Just because your CEO is entangled in one environmental and human rights controversy after another doesn't mean you can't care about the planet, does it?
Daniel Firger | Posted 10.01.2009 | Green
Seeking to forestall a judgment running to the tens of billions of dollars in its so-called "Rainforest Chernobyl" litigation, Chevron on Wednesday filed a notice of arbitration against the Government of Ecuador.
Posted 09.18.2009 | Impact
Filmmaker Joe Berlinger's new documentary, Crude, explores the fierce $27 billion legal battle raging between oil giant Chevron and the indigenous peo...
Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green
The wheels of justice turn slowly in Ecuador, and in a country plagued with corruption and weak institutions, including the judiciary, it's easy for the oil companies to get their way.
AP | ROD McGUIRK | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green
CANBERRA, Australia — Energy giant Chevron announced on Monday that the Gorgon gas field, one of the world's largest, will be developed off nort...
Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
Given the overwhelming scientific evidence against the company, a potential $27 billion judgment possibly a month out, news of the "scandal" was seen by many as a fourth-quarter Hail Mary, if not something more sinister.
Marshall Fine | Posted 10.20.2009 | Entertainment
The story filmmaker Berlinger tells is about the deadly despoiling of the Ecuadorian rain forest by Texaco -- now owned by Chevron -- and Chevron's refusal to accept responsibility for it.
Han Shan | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
Unfortunately for Chevron, the truth has a way of bubbling to the surface, like crude in the steamy jungles of Ecuador.
nytimes.com | SIMON ROMERO and CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
CARACAS, Venezuela -- The oil giant Chevron said Monday that it had obtained video recordings of meetings in Ecuador this year that appear to reveal a...
Marshall Fine | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment
"I got dragged in kicking and screaming," Joe Berlinger is saying on the telephone. "It's the last film I thought I would make."
Greg Palast | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
Ivor van Heerden is the professor who warned the levees of New Orleans were ready to blow -- months and years before Katrina did the job. For being right, he was rewarded with ... getting fired.
Han Shan | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green
This documentary chronicles the epic legal battle to hold Chevron accountable for its systematic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
The oil industry is paying its employees to go to "Energy Citizen" events, claiming they are grassroots when nothing could be further from the truth. If you live in one of the cities below, show up.
Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green
Andy Rooney hates what Chevron is doing -- leaving 18 billion gallons of wastewater and 17 million gallons of crude oil to pollute Amazonian communities, and then trying to pretend that nothing ever happened.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green
Obama to ban antibiotics?; Mining the Grand Canyon; Chevron refuses to pay for environmental damage; The bulb is back.... PLUS: Wal-Mart going green!
Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green
Chevron is fighting tooth and nail to save themselves from being held accountable for 3 billion barrels of spilled oil and the nearly 1,000 open pits they left behind in Ecuador.
Reuters | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
Nigeria's main militant group said Monday it had sabotaged a Chevron oil facility and seized a chemical tanker and six crew members, the latest in a s...
Blaise Zerega | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green
Negative reactions to the proposed cap and trade system were voiced by Chevron CEO David O'Reilly and by former Secretary of State George Schultz.
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Daphne Zuniga | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green