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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

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

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

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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WATCH: Chevron's Ecuador Problem Forces Andy Rooney to Drop the H-Bomb...Something He Really, Really, Hates to Do

Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Ecuador, Chevron, Big Oil, Corporate America, Andy Rooney, Media, Cancer, 60 Minutes, Oil Companies, Green News

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.

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Green News Report - July 21, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Grand Canyon, Green Building, Factory Farms, Green News Report, Wal-Mart, E. Coli, Antibiotic Resistance, Energy Efficiency, Water Pollution, Uranium Mining, Fish, Cafo, Green News, Sustainability, Climate Change, Chevron, China, Green News

Obama to ban antibiotics?; Mining the Grand Canyon; Chevron refuses to pay for environmental damage; The bulb is back.... PLUS: Wal-Mart going green!

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Chevron Holds a Grudge, but the US Government Won't Budge.

Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Free Trade, Chevron, Chevron Ecuador, Ecuador, Chevron Human Rights, Green News

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.

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Nigeria MEND Rebels Attack Chevron Oil Facility, Hijack Tanker And Crew

Reuters | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Nigeria Oil Reserves, Nigeria MEND, Mend, Nigeria Chevron, Foreign Affairs, Nigeria Oil, Nigeria, Nigeria Oil War, Chevron, Advocacy, MEND Rebels, World News

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...

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Is Cap and Trade Already Corrupt?

Blaise Zerega | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Blaise Zerega, Energy, fora.tv, George Shultz, Commonwealth Club, David O'reilly, Chevron, Waxman-Markey, Green News

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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Big Oil Ready To Bid On Iraqi Oil Fields

Huffington Post | Morgan Korn | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Exxon Mobil, Big Oil, Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, Baghdad, Chevron, Iraq, Oil Companies, Iraq Oil Fields, World News

Major international oil and gas companies have flown in representatives to Baghdad in preparation for tomorrow's bidding on Iraq's decadent oil fields...

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More Lipstick On Chevron's Pig

Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Environment, Oil, Misinformation, Media, Chevron, Cnn, Ecuador, Media News

Sooner of later the neighbors will smell that tremendous mountain of decaying garbage Chevron's been hiding in the backyard.

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Sometimes Oil and Water Do Mix

Greg Dalton | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil, Climate Change, Chevron, Sierra Club, Global Warming, Green News

While many thought they were about to see a smackdown between Big Green and Big Oil, Chevron CEO Dave O'Reilly and Sierra Club Executive Director quickly struck a respectful tone.

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Debating Chevron

Carl Pope | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Sierra Club, Debate, Chevron, Global Warming, Green News

Chevron's CEO, Dave O'Reilly, and I debated for an hour last night at the Commonwealth Club. We got to the bottom of some differences but didn't come to closure on some of the most important.

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Justice or Just a Step?

Carl Pope | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Nigeria, Superfund, Chevron, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Shell Oil, Green News

Powerful, wealthy global oil companies routinely partner with repressive or corrupt regimes, and then blame the local government or its local partners.

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The Free Market's Marked Men, From The Niger Delta To The Amazon

Amy Goodman | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Niger Delta, Alien Tort Claims Act, Wiwa v. Shell, Lima, World, World News, Environment, Politics News, Oil Spills, Peru, Peruvian Jungle Interethnic Development Association, Shareholders, Corporate Crime, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Amazon, Human Rights, Alberto Pizango, U.S./Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, Chevron, Africa, Royal Dutch Shell, Oil, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Pollution, Shell Oil, Center for Constitutional Rights, Rainforests, Ken Wiwa, Alan Garcia, Ecuador, Oil Companies, Genocide, Green News, Breaking Politics News, Ogoni, Ptpa, Aidesep, World News

Ken Saro-Wiwa's family and others just won a landmark settlement in U.S. federal court, ending a 13-year battle with Shell Oil. Alberto Pizango's ordeal is just beginning.

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Green News Report - June 9, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Long Beach, Biofuels, Peru Free Trade Agreement, Waxman-Markey, Nigeria Oil, Green News, Green, Chevron, Green News Report, Ethanol, Pollution, Niger Delta, Solar Power, Shell Oil, Green News

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Protesting in Peru; Settling with Shell; Pollution solutions in Long Beach; PLUS: Republicans vow to block climate legislati...

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Chevron Shareholders Ignore Company's Abuses

Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Human Rights, Pap Attack, Coal, Chevron, Sex, Scandal, Mike Papantonio, Department of Interior, Golefttv, Oil, Ring of Fire, Pollution, Green News

As you read this column, court hearings in Ecuador are taking place where Chevron stands potentially responsible for $25 billion in damages to Ecuador's waterways and aquifers.

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Darwin's Lessons for the Extractive Industries

Janet Ranganathan | Posted 06.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Occidental Petroleum, Chevron, Corporate Social Responsibility, Peru, Oil Companies, Shell Oil, Green News

In true Darwinian fashion, the most successful extractive companies are adapting to forces of change by investing in improvements to their environmental and social management systems.

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Nigeria: Chevron Pipeline Blown Up By Militants

THISDAY | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: Chevron Pipeline, Nigeria Joint Task Force, Nigeria Chevron, Foreign Affairs, Nigeria, Nigerian Militants, Chevron, Nigeria Military Conflict Oil Prices, Advocacy, World News

The onslaught by the Joint Task Force (JTF) against militants in the Niger Delta has entered its 14th day with a new twist: the militants have blown u...

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Unsure How to Vote Your Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Other Proxy Ballots?

Kim Cranston | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, CEO Pay, Lgbt, Executive Pay, Chevron, Pride Foundation, Income Inequality, News, Ed Begley Jr., Exxon Mobil, Wall Street Bailout, Global Warming, Employment Non-Discrimination, Ceres, Civil Rights, Climate Change, Shareholder Proposals, Responsible Wealth/ United for a Fair Economy, Environment, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Responsible Endowments Coalition, Shareholder Resolutions, Greenhouse Gases, Say on Pay, Shareholders, Transparentdemocracy, Larry Lessig, Executive Compensation, Shareholder Rights, Proxy Ballots, Economy, Politics News

See how organizations and people you trust, like Ed Begley, Jr., Ceres, Pride Foundation, Responsible Endowments Coalition, recommend you vote and why.

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Chevron Is Learning Its Lesson

Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil, Texaco, Chevron, Rainforest, Chevron Ecuador, Ecuador, Green News

Chevron is learning the hard way that hiding a potential $27 billion dollar liability is just as impossible as hiding 18 billion gallons of toxic waste.

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Cuomo: Is Chevron Misleading Shareholders?

Michael Brune | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil Spills, Shareholders, Andrew Cuomo, Chevron, Climate Change, Oil, Rainforests, Oil Companies, Amazon, Green News

For nearly 16 years, Chevron has been fighting a landmark oil pollution lawsuit brought by more than 30,000 residents from rainforest communities in Ecuador.

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Ecuadorians Sue Chevron For Dumping Oil (VIDEO)

60 Minutes | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Ecuador, Chevron, Oil, Environment, Pollution, Green News

"60 Minutes'" Scott Pelley went on another environmental adventure this week, this time to South America. Texaco -- now owned by Chevron -- made trou...

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Worst Job in the World: Defending Chevron

Michael Brune | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Tar Sands, Chevron, Ecuador, Oil, Climate Change, Rainforests, Oil Companies, Amazon, Green News

An unlikely transnational coalition is putting Chevron on the defensive for exploiting the Ecuadorian people.

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UPDATEDPalin & Chevron; Spill Disaster in the Making UPDATED

Shannyn Moore | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Cook Inletkeepers, Tim-Grussendorf, Volcano, Chevron, Oil Spill, Drift River, Mount Redoubt, Tank Farm, Exxon, Wayne Anthony Ross, Green News

After months of seismic activity, rumblings, and belches, why are 6 million gallons of oil still sitting at the base of the Mt. Redoubt Volcano in Alaska?

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Drain, Baby Drain! 6 Million Gallons of Crude Oil at the Base of Erupting Volcano Could be Alaska's Next Exxon Valdez

Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker") | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Alaska Volcano, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Mt Redoubt, Chevron, Exxon, Cook Inlet, Cook Inlet Belugas, Big Oil, Palin, Mt. Redoubt Oil, Volcano, Sarah Palin, Cook Inletkeeper, Exxon Valdez, Anchorage-Alaska, Green News

On its 20th anniversary, we all relive the human and environmental tragedy that was the Exxon Valdez oil spill. But today, right now, Alaska faces down another threat.

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