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Oil Giant Chevron Accused of "Extortion" on Capitol Hill

Han Shan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Corporations, Big Oil, Lobbying, Ecuador, Lobbyists, Oil, Chevron, Corporate Greed, Barack Obama, Lawsuit, Indigenous People, Amazon, Green News
Han Shan

Chevron is making an extraordinary lobbying effort to evade responsibility for its massive toxic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon. In solidarity with all communities where Big Oil puts profit ahead of people, we must say "no more."

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An Open Letter to Chevron's New CEO

Michael Brune | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Rainforest Action Network, 350.Org, Rainforest, Big Oil, Climate Change, Ecuador, Oil, Clean Energy, Amazon Rainforest, Chevron, Chevron Ecuador, Oil Companies, Green News
Michael Brune

These two issues -- climate change and the environmental and human rights impacts of Chevron's operations -- are likely to define your tenure as Chief Executive Officer. How will you respond?

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Displacement Of Local Peoples As Coporations Buy Carbon Offsets

Mother Jones | James Ridgeway | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Chevron, American Electric Power, General Motors, Carbon Offsets, Corporations, Sustainability, Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous People., Amazon, Climate Change, Green News

THERE IS ANOTHER vexing question inherent in preserving forests: What happens to the people who use the land? Efforts to protect biodiversity in the d...

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Bush Oil Buddies Divvy Up Iraqi Oil, Now Joined By "Liberal Scion" Peter Galbraith

Jackson Williams | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Age of Turbulence, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, Kurdistan, Exxon-Mobil, Iraq, Joe Biden, Osama Bin Laden, Ray Hunt, Hunt Oil, Kuwait, John Kerry, Kurds, Desert Storm, Oil, New York Times, Afghanistan, Iraqi Oil, Alan Greenspan, Peter Galbraith, Politics News
Jackson Williams

Peter Galbraith, son of the famed economist, is in line to reap $100 million dollars -- maybe more -- from contracts between a Norwegian oil company and the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.

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The Movie Chevron Doesn't Want You to See

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Ecuador, Oil Industry, Human Rights, Chevron, Joe Berlinger, Rainforest, Crude, Environment, Texaco, Amazon, Pablo Fajardo, Green News
Tracy L. Barnett

Many have heard of Chevron-Texaco's contamination of the Amazonian rainforests. Joe Berlinger's film, Crude, brings the battle to bring them to justice to life in a way words cannot.

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People Versus Chevron

Daphne Zuniga | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil, Oil Refinery, Chevron, Oil Companies, Oil Refining, Atchison Village, Green News
Daphne Zuniga

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.

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Chevron and Cultural Genocide in Ecuador

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 11.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Ecuador, Texaco, Cancer, Toxic Waste, Chevron, Rainforest, Oil Companies, Amazon Rainforest, Home News
Kerry Kennedy

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.

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Chevron Gets Fixed

Antonia Juhasz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Ecuador, Angola, Chevron, Burma, Climate Change, Protest, Oil, Yes Men, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Torture Memos, Big Oil, Green News
Antonia Juhasz

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.

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Chevron Corporate Espionage Campaign Backfires; Makes The Insider Look Like Peter Pan (UPDATED)

Howard Glaser | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Chevron, Charles James, Big Oil, Chevron Ecuador, Amazon Rainforest, Pollution, Chevron Human Rights, Green News
Howard Glaser

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.

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Chevron's Man in Ecuador: Felon, Drug-Trafficker, and Liar, Oh My!

Han Shan | Posted 10.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Chevron, Green News, Oil, Corporate Greed, Indigenous People, Chevron Ecuador, Lawsuit, Amazon, Corruption, Big Oil, Corporations, Green News
Han Shan

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.

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How Trudie Styler Is Winning Hearts and Minds at ... Chevron?

Michael Brune | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Chevron, Oil Spill, Ecuador, Trudie Styler, Oil, Climate Change, Chevron Ecuador, Lawsuit, Oil Companies, Crude-Movie-Review, Washington Post, Green News
Michael Brune

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.

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Quiet Voices from CGI: Those that Fight the Epic Battle in the Ecuador Rain Forest

Michelle Kraus | Posted 11.25.2009 | World

Read More: Chernobyl, Clinton Global Initiative, Joe Berlinger, Cgi, Rainforest, Ecuador, Chevron, Amazon Rainforest, Chevron Ecuador, Amazon, World News
Michelle Kraus

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.

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Trudie Styler Invites Chevron Workers to the Movies

Michael Brune | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Amazon-Watch, Rainforest Action Network, Chevron, Crude, Rainforest, Ecuador, Celebrity Activism, Trudie Styler, Oil, Climate Change, Amazon Rainforest, Chevron Ecuador, Amazon, Green News
Michael Brune

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?

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Chevron Desperate? Just a BIT

Daniel Firger | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Free Trade, International Law, Human Rights, Chevron, Ecuador, Foreign Policy, Green News
Daniel Firger

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.

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WATCH: Trailer For Crude, Film About The Chevron Vs. Ecuador Legal Battle

Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact

Read More: Amazon Rainforest, Chevron, Crude, Ecuador, Joe Berlinger, Impact News

Filmmaker Joe Berlinger's new documentary, Crude, explores the fierce $27 billion legal battle raging between oil giant Chevron and the indigenous peo...

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HuffPost Review: Crude

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Crude, Texaco, Chevron, Oil Spill, Ecuador, Joel Berlinger, Green News
Nikolas Kozloff

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.

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Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell To Develop World's Largest Gas Field

AP | ROD McGUIRK | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Gorgon, Australia, Exxon Mobil, Oil, Chevron, Shell, Natural Gas, Green News

CANBERRA, Australia — Energy giant Chevron announced on Monday that the Gorgon gas field, one of the world's largest, will be developed off nort...

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Sex, Lies, and Videotape: Chevron's Spy Games Unraveling

Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Corruption, Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility, Ecuador, Environment, Corporate Social Responsibility, Chevron, Indigenous Rights, Amazon Rainforest, Amazon, Green News
Paul Paz y Miño

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.

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Movie Review: Crude and Chevron's Social Darwinism

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Chevron, Crude Movie Review, Joe Berlinger, The Cove, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

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.

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Chevron's 'Dirty Tricks Operation' in the Amazon

Han Shan | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Corruption, Video, Corporations, Big Oil, Oil, Chevron, Corporate Greed, Film, Indigenous People, Lawsuit, Amazon, Green News
Han Shan

Unfortunately for Chevron, the truth has a way of bubbling to the surface, like crude in the steamy jungles of Ecuador.



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Chevron Offers Evidence of Bribery Scheme In Ecuador's $27 Billion Environmental Lawsuit

nytimes.com | SIMON ROMERO and CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Oil Giant, Oil Giant Chevron, Ecuador, Chevron Pollution, Chevron Amazon Pollution, Chevron Environment Lawsuit, Chevron South America, Chevron, Chevron Ecuador, Ecuador Environmental Lawsuit, Chevron Amazon, World News

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...

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Interview: Joe Berlinger and the Moral Imperative of Crude

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Crude, Ecuador, Brother's Keeper, Texaco, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, Chevron, Joe Berlinger Interview, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

"I got dragged in kicking and screaming," Joe Berlinger is saying on the telephone. "It's the last film I thought I would make."

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Economic Hit Men and the Next Drowning of New Orleans

Greg Palast | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, New Orleans, Greg Palast, Environment, Oil, America's Wetland, Pipelines, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, Chevron, Lousiana State University, Ivor Van Heerden, Katrina Anniversary, Shell, Politics News
Greg Palast

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.

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CRUDE: The Film Chevron Doesn't Want You to See

Han Shan | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Corporations, Big Oil, Oil, Chevron, Corporate Greed, Film, Indigenous People, Lawsuit, Amazon, Green News
Han Shan

This documentary chronicles the epic legal battle to hold Chevron accountable for its systematic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

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Texas and New Mexico 'Energy Citizens' Events Are Really "Energy Employees" Rallies

Kevin Grandia | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Bp, Freedomworks, Energy Citizens American Petroleum Institute, Nam, Chevron, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Astroturfing, Green News
Kevin Grandia

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.

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