Showing posts with label obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obama. Show all posts
Friday, July 9, 2010

Chevron Lobbying Over Ecuador Lawsuit Criticized by Sierra Club, Catholic Bishops

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Chevron's long-running lobbying campaign to cancel Ecuador's trade preferences over a potential $27.3 billion environmental lawsuit ...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Pat Murphy: Chevron’s Bogus Blogger Up to Old Tricks

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Surprise, surprise: Pat Murphy, purveyor of the SanFranciscoSentinel.com (a small online "newspaper" that sells editorial contro...

Tragic BP Gulf Spill Casts Light on Chevron Disaster in Ecuador

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The Amazon Defense Coalition put out this release today: Tragic BP Gulf Spill Casts Light on Chevron Disaster in Ecuador While BP Is Large...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Chevron’s Watson To Feds: Stop Us Before We Hurt Somebody

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From a recent Dow Jones article : Chevron Corp. (CVX) Chief Executive John Watson said that the oil and gas industry has asked the U.S. gove...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Chevron Lawyer Admits “Release” Doesn’t Cover Ecuador Lawsuit

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Chevron Lawyer Rodrigo Perez Pallares If there was ever ironclad proof that Chevron is being deceptive in court and before the public about ...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Obama, Ecuador, and Chevron: Big Oil’s Hypocrisy

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As the economic and environmental losses mount on the Gulf Coast so do the similarities between the growing BP oil spill and the...
Monday, September 21, 2009

"The Chevron Way" by Steven Donziger, posted at Forbes.com

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Steven Donziger, one of the primary U.S. lawyers advising the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador wrote an Op-Ed laying out...
Sunday, May 31, 2009

Alternate Annual Report on Chevron’s Human Rights Problem Around the World

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Apparently we're not the only ones paying attention to Chevron's human rights problems. An "alternate annual report" has b...
Friday, May 1, 2009

Interesting Story on NPR

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103233560 While Juan Forero does a nice job of recounting the horrific environmental...
Saturday, April 25, 2009

Mickey Kantor Has an Ethics Problem

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Mickey Kantor, normally an impressive individual, has a major ethics problem. Kantor, as Peter Stone reports in The National Journal is tak...
Thursday, February 5, 2009

Good comment on the Washington Times Story

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Oh yeah, also – I saw this comment on today's Washington Times story about Chevron in Ecuador . Thought it did a good job laying out the...

Chevron’s Washington Tricks Exposed

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The Washington Times ran an article today exposing Chevron's strategy for dealing with their huge legal liability in Ecuador: try to ge...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

William J. Haynes: What Was Chevron Thinking?

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John Geluardi - author of The Snitch blog over at SF Weekly - put out a post last week about William Haynes, calling him "Chevron'...
Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Why The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Needs Reform

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As the Bowoto v. Chevron trial came to a conclusion in San Francisco, a disturbing trend has emerged that raises questions about Chevron...
Monday, November 24, 2008

Charles James: Chevron's In-House Karl Rove

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Since Scott Gilmore is doing a great job chronicling the day-to-day of the landmark human rights trial of Bowoto v. Chevron, I thoug...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Bowoto v. Chevron – The Flamingo Defense:

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Bowoto v. Chevron continued on Wednesday, the second full day of the trial, with the examination of the plaintiff's expert and two witn...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Landmark Human Rights Trial Continues – Opening Statements and More:

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Opening arguments began in the landmark Bowoto v. Chevron case today, with the plaintiffs launching into an emotional outline of the events ...
Monday, October 27, 2008

Landmark Human Rights Litigation has Chevron on the Run

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Just in: A landmark human rights trial, Bowoto v. Chevron , has finally begun in federal court in San Francisco, and a handful of Nigerian v...