Ask yourself why the State of Alaska is not defending your right to know how much oil Chevron has at the base of a volcano that's about to erupt.
David Weiner | Posted 03.12.2009 | World
Just what is Chevron trying to prove with these actions? Do they really need the money, which includes $190,000 in photocopying charges, and that accounts for less than a rounding error for the company?
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 02.17.2009 | Business
With Bush leaving town, the air is going out of the price of oil.
David Wallechinsky | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics
In selecting James L. Jones to be his national security advisor, Barack Obama has chosen a former Marine Corps general who, at the time of his nominat...
Robert Weissman | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business
In keeping with our tradition of highlighting diverse forms of corporate wrongdoing, we included only one financial company on the 10 Worst list.
AP | FRANK BAJAK | Posted 01.21.2009 | Green
LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador — When the sun beats particularly hot on this land in the middle of the jungle, the roads sweat petroleum. A Rhode Island-si...
Andrew Woods | Posted 12.27.2008 | Business
Paying the soldiers of foreign countries to moonlight as a private security force is an inherently corrupting practice that undermines the rule of law and the neutrality of a foreign army.
Scott Gilmore | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
What happens when an oil company gets its back to the wall in a human rights lawsuit? Like a cornered hound, it goes on the attack.
Andrew Woods | Posted 12.01.2008 | Business
Wednesday morning I watched the beginning development of a very specific narrative thread by Chevron - the underlying claim that they did not know, and could not know.
Andrew Woods | Posted 11.29.2008 | Business
Of course American companies have a right and responsibility to protect their workers from harm - no reasonable person would argue that.
Daniel Firger | Posted 11.29.2008 | Business
Since the state of the law is so unsettled on this point, the decision in Bowoto is likely to have a big impact on the way future human rights lawsuits are litigated. Chevron knows this, of course.
Daniel Firger | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business
For the first time, a U.S. company could potentially be held liable in U.S. courts for gross human rights abuses committed in their overseas operations.
Javier Sierra | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green
Because of its extraordinary number of sun hours per year and its predominant winds, New Mexico could be turned into an El Dorado of clean, alternative, renewable energy.
Paula Gordon | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
Sneer. The Republican Way. Never mind transparent disregard for truthfulness (contempt, actually). Two things we can now say with confidence: Repub...
Robert Naiman | Posted 09.15.2008 | Business
Chevron has been lobbying the U.S. government to pressure Ecuador to intervene the dispute between Chevron and 30,000 Amazon jungle dwellers suing the company for environmental damages.
AP | JOHN PORRETTO | Posted 08.10.2008 | Business
HOUSTON — Oil giants Chevron Corp. and Total SA wrapped up a string of gargantuan, record-breaking earnings reports Friday, a stretch in which s...
The Washington Independent | Mike Lillies | Posted 08.02.2008 | Business
Caving to big oil demands, the Senate on Tuesday approved a plan that intensifies trade sanctions against Burma's military regime but abandons an earl...
Robert Scheer | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
It was always about the oil -- that's why "we" invaded Iraq -- only "we" aren't getting any, at least not at a reasonable price. The oil companies are.
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.12.2008 | Business
SAN RAMON, Calif. — Astounding profits in the oil industry are becoming as routine as the anguished looks of motorists filling up their gas tank...
AP | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business
A court-appointed expert says Chevron should pay up to $16 billion for allegedly polluting the Ecuadorean Amazon. A class-action lawsuit by 30,000 ju...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Bank of America Corp. and Chevron Corp. will replace tobacco company Altria Group Inc. and manufacturer Honeywell International Inc. ...
New York TImes | Louise Story | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The corner offices of corporate America are increasingly being filled from every corner of the world. Citigroup, the world's largest bank, named Vikr...
Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker") | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics