Press Releases

Chevron CEO Challenged to Change Course at Shareholder Meeting

Shareholders and environmental groups called on company to turn page on environmental destruction and rights abuses

San Ramon, CA – At Chevron’s annual general meeting today, institutional shareholders and environmental and human rights organizations representing shareholders presented newly-appointed CEO Michael Wirth with arguments for why he should change course on the company’s history of environmental and social irresponsibility.

Global Campaign Exposes BlackRock for Devastating Climate Impacts of Investments

Campaigners urge CEO Larry Fink to heed his own words and define BlackRock's social purpose

New York, NY – Some of the country's largest environmental and human rights groups issued a challenge to BlackRock at its annual shareholder meeting yesterday, daring the world's largest asset manager to take greater leadership on climate change following ambitious statements by BlackRock's CEO calling on corporations to pursue ends beyond pure short-term profit.

Amazonian Leaders Call on California to Go Fossil Fuel-Free at Chevron's Richmond Refinery

Bay Area environmental and indigenous organizations join protest to call attention to Chevron's key role in causing destruction to people and planet

Richmond, CA – Indigenous leaders from the Ecuadorian Amazon joined Bay Area allies at Chevron's Richmond Refinery on Thursday morning to call on California's political leadership to phase out oil and gas production and processing in the state, including its importation of crude oil drilled in the Amazon rainforest.

Chase AGM: Dozens of Indigenous and Frontline Community Representatives Call for an End to Bank Financing of Extreme Fossil Fuels

Delegates from Canada to Ecuador and across the U.S. travel to Texas to deliver open letter to Chase shareholders

The quickly growing international campaign pressuring JPMorgan Chase to end its massive funding of extreme fossil fuels continued to escalate today as a delegation representing Indigenous and nonindigenous communities from Canada to Ecuador and across the U.S. gathered at Chase's annual shareholder meeting in Plano, Texas.

Shipibo Medicine Woman Gunned Down in Peruvian Amazon

Amazon Watch is saddened and outraged by the news of the brazen assassination of the recognized Shipibo medicine woman Olivia Arévalo. We express our condolences to her family in community of and stand in solidarity with the indigenous organizations that are denouncing this horrific act.

Indigenous Amazonian Leaders at U.N. to Demand an End to Resource Extraction and Threats Against Rights Defenders

Women's delegation from the Ecuadorian Amazon will bring call for permanent protection of rainforest lands to the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous representatives from several nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon will attend the17th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York City from April 16 to 27.

Record Environmental Judgement Moves to Ontario Superior Court in Toronto

Long running dispute between petro-giant Chevron and Ecuadorian citizens has Canadian component

Toronto, Canada – This morning, Friends of the Earth Canada, the Steelworkers Humanity Fund of the United Steelworkers of Canada, and Amazon Watch filed an application to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice calling on the court to unseal documents in the historic legal effort to enforce one of the largest environmental judgments in history.

U.S. Senators Send Letters to BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase on Amazon Crude

Letters from Senators Whitehouse and Schatz request financial institutions address the climate and social risk of financing oil companies operating in the Amazon and other high-impact areas

"As the Senators' letter reminds us, climate change also poses a significant financial risk to the economy, especially for the fossil fuel industry and its financial backers. Investing in companies with particularly controversial operations, like those located on indigenous territories in the Amazon rainforest, poses an outsized risk because of local opposition. Not only that, but these projects may violate international and national laws requiring free, prior and informed consent of indigenous communities."

Amazonian Indigenous Women Take Demands for End to Oil and Mining Directly to Ecuador's President

In a Meeting with President Moreno, the Women Called for an Amazon Free of Natural Resource Extraction and an End to Threats Against Them and Other Earth Defenders

Quito, Ecuador – After presenting to Ecuador's President Moreno their demands to end natural resource extraction in their Amazon rainforest territories in a meeting in the presidential palace late Thursday, a delegation of Amazonian indigenous women announced they will give him fifteen days to provide concrete responses. The women also called for an end to the threats and attacks against Earth Defenders including themselves. Dozens of other women and allies rallied outside.