Chevron's 12-Step Program to Obtain Impunity for Its Crimes and Abuses In Ecuador

Why has Chevron still not paid up for its destruction of Ecuador's ecosytem after 22 years of litigation? And why has Chevron still not paid a dollar directly to those affected by its pollution in Ecuador when BP voluntarily put up $20 billion to compensate victims within weeks of its much less impactful Gulf oil spill in the United States...

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Canada's Supreme Court Poised to Force Chevron To Stand Trial Over $9.5 Billion Judgment

Chevron Lawyer Clark Hunter Poses Dare to Justices: "Fairness" Should Have Nothing to do With It Chevron's brazen plan to inflict a "lifetime of litigation" on the indigenous communities it poisoned in Ecuador's Amazon continues to grind its way through courts around the world. We are now in the third decade of litigation since the original lawsuit...

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Ecuador Government Should Sue Chevron For Fraud Over Environmental Remediation

It is high time for Ecuador's government to step up and better defend its citizens who are slowly dying off because of Chevron's deliberate contamination of the country's Amazon region. One way it could step up its game: sue Chevron for fraud because of ongoing problems related to the company's sham remediation of the area in the mid-1990s...

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A Hard Look at NOW's Support for Chevron In Ecuador Case Raises Ethical Concerns

NOW’s Elaine Wood Questioned About Failure to Tell Appellate Court About Her Business Ties to Chevron  The relationship between the National Organization for Women ("NOW") and Chevron in the Ecuador pollution case is getting even more interesting. (For background, see this press release where Ecuadorian women criticized...

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Chevron Paying Big Bucks to NOW and Others for "Friend of the Court" Briefs In Ecuador Case

U.S. Women's Advocates Cash Chevron Checks and Then Abandon Indigenous Women In Ecuador. Is It Worth It? Increasingly isolated in its Ecuador pollution case, Chevron is paying for "friend of the court" briefs by supposedly independent parties such as the National Organization for Women ("NOW") that are designed to back the company's faltering defense...

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Chevron Lawyer Randy Mastro Resorts to Dirty Tricks In Ecuador Pollution Case

Chevron lawyer Randy Mastro again appears to be engaging in dirty tricks in a last-ditch effort to rescue the oil company from its worsening legal troubles related to its $9.5 billion liability in Ecuador. Through backdoor manuevering, Mastro is trying to influence the New York federal appellate court that is hearing Chevron's defense of its ill-fated...

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Chevron Faces Risk of "Spectacular Implosion" In Ecuador Pollution Case

One of Chevron's many dark secrets -- one company management desperately tries to hide from  shareholders  -- is that its RICO defense in the Ecuador pollution case faces the risk of a "spectacular implosion" in the coming months. At least that's the informed opinion of somebody in one of the best positions to assess the case. That person...

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Chevron Faces Rising Business Risk From Ecuador Judgment

Inside Counsel, a magazine for corporate lawyers, recently published an article by New York attorney Steven Donziger outlining Chevron's rising global business risks stemming from its $9.5 billion Ecuador environmental liability. Donziger writes that Chevron's scorched earth litigation strategy in the Ecuador matter should serve as a "cautionary...

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How Reporter Paul Barrett Got It Wrong On Chevron’s Calamity In Ecuador

Chevron's $9.5 billion environmental liability in Ecuador, affirmed by eight separate appellate judges, has been haunting company CEO John Watson and his shareholders for years. In a new book on the litigation -- one replete with factual errors and lacking even a single footnote -- Businessweek reporter Paul Barrett largely adopts the myopically narrow...

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NYT Columnist Joe Nocera Hides Major Conflict of Interest Over Chevron's Ecuador Case

We have long known business writer Joe Nocera to be the resident lightweight of the NYT op-ed page. He clearly lacks the supple analytical insight often seen in the writing of his colleagues Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman, Charles Blow, David Brooks, and Paul Krugman. It was no surprise, then, when Nocera decided to use his column to help his Businessweek...

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Fortune's Roger Parloff Now Helping Chevron's Smear Campaign

Fortune legal reporter Roger Parloff seems upset over Chevron's diminishing prospects of evading its $9.5 billion environmental liability in Ecuador. We have written previously about Parloff's slanted reporting in favor of Chevron. For months, with no conceivable justification, he has refused to print our detailed letter to the editor pointing out...

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Chevron Racism Toward Ecuador Highlighted by Court Decision In BP Case

A legal decision handed down last week by U.S. federal Judge Carl Barbier found that BP's "gross negligence" caused the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.  The decision increased the company's liability to roughly $50 billion. For our purposes, Judge Barbier's decision – which sets an important benchmark for corporate accountability...

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Rolling Stone Nails Chevron for Corrupt Acts In Ecuador Litigation

None other than Rolling Stone (with its 4 million Twitter followers) has now weighed in on Chevron's environmental catastrophe and cover-up in Ecuador. The picture is not pretty for company management and shareholders. The detailed story by Alexander Zaitchik that appeared last week on the magazine's website nails Chevron for trying to sabotage...

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