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Chevron's Chernobyl in the Amazon

For over three decades, Chevron chose profit over people. While drilling for oil in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest region, the company deliberately dumped billions of gallons of toxic wastewater into rivers and streams, spilled millions of gallons of crude oil, and abandoned hazardous waste in hundreds of unlined open-air pits littered throughout the region. The result was widespread devastation of the rainforest ecosystem and local Indigenous communities, and one of the worst environmental disasters in history. More

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International Organizations Demand DOJ Review Chevron's Retaliatory Litigation Against Human Rights Attorney Steven Donziger

February 17, 2021

Thirteen international human rights and environmental watchdog organizations sent an open letter to the U.S. Department of Justice asking it to launch a high-level review of the retaliatory "SLAPP" lawsuits Chevron brought against the lawyer who helped 30,000 Indigenous peoples and farmer communities in Ecuador win a landmark $9.5 billion judgment against the company for massive oil pollution.

Ten Years Ago, Ecuadorian Communities Won a Historic $9.5B Victory Against Chevron

Imbalance of power and environmental racism have so far allowed them to escape paying up

February 11, 2021

February 14, 2011, was a monumental day in the history of environmental justice, corporate accountability, and human rights. This Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of an Ecuadorian court's groundbreaking judgment holding Chevron, one of the world's largest corporations, accountable for deliberate pollution in the Amazon. This civil court victory was the first of its kind and forever changed the range of possibilities for corporate accountability and environmental justice. We must lift up this date and moment for the unprecedented victory that it represents.

What Do You Get When You Beat Chevron in Court? 500 Days of Home Detention

December 22, 2020

"As my physical world has shrunk, the online world has expanded by multiples of thousands. And once I get through this, I have no doubt that Chevron will be paying this judgment such that thousands of Indigenous people and rural communities will have a clean environment and thousands of lives will be saved. That's what this is ultimately about."

Chevron Is Refusing to Pay for the "Amazon Chernobyl" – We Can Fight Back With Citizen Action

The lawyer challenging the oil company's toxic waste dump in Ecuador is under house arrest. We need a boycott.

September 17, 2020The Guardian

At a time when so many black Americans, Indigenous peoples, people of color, and white allies are protesting at systemic racism, we'd like to highlight a different story of marginalized people speaking truth to power on behalf of their most basic human rights. It's the story of how "big oil" is now using Harvey Weinstein-like destroy-the-accuser tactics to try to crush environmental defenders. It is also the story of how we can all help those defenders peacefully fight back.

A New Justice Movement Emerges to Defend Steven Donziger

The lawyer who helped win a historic Amazon cleanup deal faces six months in prison, but will still not have a jury trial

September 10, 2020The Nation

In 2013 Donziger helped win a landmark legal case in Ecuador against Chevron for contaminating a vast stretch of rain forest in the Amazon headwaters larger than the state of Rhode Island. The Ecuadorean courts awarded the 30,000 plaintiffs, who are poor rural farmers and indigenous people, $9.5 billion to clean up the damage. Instead of obeying the judgment and starting the cleanup, the oil giant counterattacked.

Leading Anti-SLAPP Coalition Denounces Chevron for Corruption and Legal Bullying

Protect the Protest task force members file amicus brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

June 30, 2020

"Steven Donziger is being criminally prosecuted not only for his advocacy but by the very targets of his advocacy. Chevron has not merely sued its adversary; it is pulling the strings of a criminal prosecution. That the prosecutor of Chevron's nemesis is Chevron's former law firm not only undermines confidence in the prosecutor's impartiality; it would also undermine confidence in the impartiality of the judiciary."

Chevron Is a Champion of Environmental Racism

June 15, 2020

The murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have catalyzed a seismic and long-overdue shift in support for the Movement for Black Lives and to defund the police. At the same time, the climate justice movement has finally begun to gain momentum because of the increasing recognition that overcoming our environmental crisis requires addressing and confronting racism. The case of Chevron's criminal mistreatment of Indigenous and rural peoples in Ecuador's Amazon provides a perfect example of this connection.

Chevron's Move to Hold Online Annual Shareholder's Meeting Provided No Respite from Intense Criticism by Affected Communities, Prominent Leaders, and Artists

CEO Wirth Never Before Confronted by Such Prominent Group of Voices Including Alec Baldwin, Roger Waters, and Nobel Laureate Jody Williams

May 27, 2020

Chevron's annual shareholder's meeting took place online this year due to the global coronavirus pandemic. Ironically, by holding a virtual meeting, Chevron opened itself up to greater participation in what is usually a closed-door ticketed event. Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams and world-renowned actor and producer Alec Baldwin both stood to move shareholder resolutions related to the $9.5 billion Ecuador liability by sharing pre-recorded video messages.

Civil Liberties Defense Center to Represent Environmental and Human Rights Lawyer Steven Donziger

May 18, 2020

After an immense legal battle – twenty long years – with the multinational fossil fuel giant, Donziger was successful in helping the Indigenous people of the region win a massive $9.5 billion judgment. This is the largest known amount in damages in an environmental case from a trial. The funds were awarded to remediate decades of toxic contamination of the region's waterways, which caused cancer and a host of other serious health problems. Unfortunately, these problems continue to this day, as Chevron continues to pollute the Ecuadorian Amazon with impunity, and has not paid a dime toward the court-ordered cleanup. The judgment against Chevron has been affirmed in whole or in part by at least six appellate courts in the countries of Ecuador, Canada, and the United States, and efforts to enforce the ruling continue.

Investor Eye on the Amazon

A primer for shareholders concerned about rainforest protection and human rights

Spring 2020

The Investor Eye on the Amazon newsletter serves as a resource for socially-responsible investors, industry analysts, and researchers looking to better understand the risks associated with financing climate-damaging industries in the Amazon, and what they can do to protect the region.