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    End Amazon Crude

    The Amazon is a no-go zone for oil drilling

    The western Amazon is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. This vital rainforest is under threat from previous and ongoing oil extraction – which pollutes rivers, harms wildlife and human health, and opens the forest to roads, deforestation, and further exploitation.

    Amazon Watch works in close partnership with Indigenous peoples to stop oil extraction at the source and reduce global demand for Amazon oil. Together, we are building pressure on governments, corporations, and consumers to phase out Amazon crude and protect the rainforest – before it’s too late.

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    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...

    March 26, 2018
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    Social-Good Deficiency?

    Directors & Boards Magazine calls out BlackRock's hypocrisy as one of eight key topics they believe will be "On the Table for 2018" in the introduction to their First Quarter issue

    Directors & Boards | The latest ESG push came from BlackRock's CEO Larry Fink sending an ultimatum to corporations across the country to make social good part of the overall business strategy plans or else. Turns out, BlackRock has investments in companies that are drilling in the Amazon, according to the nonprofit Amazon Watch.

    March 15, 2018
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    Ending Amazon Crude Key to Fossil-Free Movement, Say Leading Environmental and Human Rights Groups

    BlackRock, JP Morgan Chase and Amazon.com Challenged to End Their Support of Oil Drilling in the Amazon for the Good of Indigenous Rights and the Climate

    Over fifty environmental and human rights organizations have signed on to an open letter in support of Amazon Watch's campaign to End Amazon Crude, recognizing it as a crucial component of the global movement to keep fossil fuels in the ground and protect the climate and indigenous rights.

    March 5, 2018
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    Why It’s Time for Amazon.com to Protect the Real Amazon

    Amazon.com is one of the world's largest retailers, ships millions of packages around the world every day, and prides itself on innovation – including expanding its own vehicle fleet. So why hasn't it been a pioneer in greening its transport operations? Why has it remained silent on the protection of the biome that serves as its namesake? It's...

    February 8, 2018
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    Amazon Watch is building on more than 28 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.

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    120,000 of Us Tell BlackRock to Stop Financing Amazon Destruction

    Last Thursday, Amazon Watch and CREDO Action delivered over 120,000 petition signatures to BlackRock's San Francisco headquarters, calling on the asset manager to divest from companies drilling for oil in the Amazon rainforest. The next day, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink sent a letter to large public companies calling on them to "serve a social...

    January 16, 2018
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    JPMorgan, BlackRock Tout Climate Bona Fides While Funding Amazon Oil Drilling

    "Like so many big businesses, JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock greenwash their activities rather than apply their resources to real solutions," Leila Salazar-López, executive director of Amazon Watch, told HuffPost in a statement. "Our report exposes their complicity in Amazon destruction, and we know savvy investors will respond...

    November 10, 2017
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    Investing in Amazon Destruction

    Despite the urgent imperative to keep at least two thirds of all fossil fuels in the ground in order to avoid catastrophic climate change, governments and companies continue to recklessly expand fossil fuel exploration and drilling across the globe.

    November 8, 2017
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    Keep It in the Ground: From Ecuador to California

    Last year, about 10% of the oil processed by California refineries came from the Amazon basin. This represents about half of the oil exported from the region. In other words, California refineries are collectively the largest consumers of Amazon oil in the world.

    June 26, 2017
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    Stop Fueling Amazon Destruction

    Extracting crude oil from the western Amazon Basin threatens ecologically- and culturally-sensitive ecosystems critical to global climate stability. California is the largest single importer and processor of this fuel. Therefore, brand-name retailers with significant operations in California have a critical role to play in reducing U.S. demand for...

    June 19, 2017
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    #EndAmazonCrude Campaign Takes Off!

    With your help we will end destructive oil extraction in the Amazon. Our climate can't afford it and the indigenous communities fighting to save their homes and cultures need us to unite behind them today.

    September 30, 2016
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    Now Is the Time To #EndAmazonCrude!

    Today Amazon Watch issued a new call to the consumers and companies in the U.S. and around the world: End Amazon Crude! With the release of a new investigative report, an animated video by long-time ally and Pulitzer Prize winning animator Mark Fiore, an infographic, and a petition to demand that refineries in the U.S. stop sourcing crude from the...

    September 28, 2016
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    Amazon Crude Used in U.S. Truck Fleets Is Destroying the Rainforest

    Oakland, CA – A new report entitled From Well to Wheel: The Social, Environmental and Climate Costs of Amazon Crude released Wednesday by Amazon Watch reveals the extent to which U.S. imports of crude oil from the Amazon – most of which are refined in California – help drive the ongoing expansion of oil operations into some of the Amazon...

    September 28, 2016
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    From Well to Wheel

    Unbeknownst to most, oil extraction in the Amazon is not only rampant; it is also expanding rapidly as global supplies dwindle and economic pressures multiply. Even lesser known is the fact that the majority of this rainforest-destroying fossil fuel ends up in gas tanks throughout the United States.

    September 28, 2016
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