In a series of unlawful attacks on the Constitution and the rule of law, U.S. trial judge Lewis A. Kaplan in recent weeks has continued his unrestrained attempt to help Chevron evade paying a $12 billion pollution judgment to Ecuadorian Indigenous peoples by targeting me and my family with a vicious intimidation campaign designed to force me to abandon my advocacy.
Read MoreNew York, NY – Using an order from a conflicted U.S. trial judge with financial ties to the oil industry, Chevron deployed at least seven lawyers this week to help depose the wife of human rights attorney Steven Donziger with a series of harassing questions as the company stepped up its SLAPP-style attacks on the advocate who helped Indigenous peoples in Ecuador win a landmark $12 billion pollution judgment.
Read MoreSan Francisco – Institutional shareholders and a large number of environmental groups this week dealt Chevron CEO Michael Wirth a severe rebuke by voting heavily in favor of two resolutions that cited his “mishandling” of the risks related to the historic Ecuador $12 billion pollution judgment won by Indigenous groups and currently being enforced in Canadian courts.
Read MoreSan Ramon, CA – At Chevron's annual meeting today, shareholders and dozens of environmental and human rights organizations told Chevron CEO Michael Wirth that the company must act to change its course of environmental and social irresponsibility. Five different resolutions supported by shareholders representing billions of dollars in assets under management urged the company to address a wide range of climate change and human rights issues.
Read MoreNew York – New York human rights advocate Steven Donziger today criticized a contempt finding against him by federal judge Lewis A. Kaplan, saying the ruling is part of an “intimidation play” by Chevron designed to block enforcement of a landmark pollution judgment owed to Indigenous peoples in Ecuador threatened by cancer-causing toxins from the company’s dumping of oil waste.
Read MoreToronto, Canada – Seven years after launching an asset seizure action against Chevron in Canada, Ecuadorian Indigenous and farmer communities issued a strongly worded statement today vowing to proceed “immediately and with dispatch” to a trial already backed by Canada’s Supreme Court that they believe will force the oil giant to comply with a landmark $12 billion pollution judgment validated by four layers of courts in Ecuador.
Read MoreLondon, UK – Global Witness, a prominent international anti-corruption organization, is calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Chevron and its law firm Gibson Dunn based on public documents that suggest the company used witness bribery and fraud to avoid complying with a $12b pollution judgment awarded in 2013 to Indigenous groups in Ecuador. Chevron was found liable by four layers of courts in Ecuador for deliberately dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste when it operated in the country from 1964 to 1992.
Read MoreNew York, NY – Three prominent lawyers have rallied behind the demand of human rights attorney Steven Donziger that he be allowed to present compelling new evidence that Chevron committed fraud to try to strip him of his law license as retaliation for helping his Indigenous clients win a landmark $12 billion pollution judgment in Ecuador.
Read MoreQuito , Ecuador - Leaders of Ecuador’s Amazon communities this week blasted Chevron and their own government for setting up a paltry clean-up fund of only $10 million to cover massive costs to remediate the oil company’s environmental disaster that various courts have determined will run at least $12 billion and maybe much higher.
Read MoreNEW YORK, NY - Chevron took another major hit this week over its Ecuador pollution disaster after a coalition of prominent civil rights groups named the company the “Corporate Bully of the Year” for its vicious attacks against Indigenous peoples and their counsel who won a landmark $12 billion environmental judgment.
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