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			<description>Over three decades of oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Chevron dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest, leaving local people suffering a wave of cancers, miscarriages and birth defects. Now, with the support of an international campaign for justice, the communities affected by Chevron’s negligence are holding one of the world’s largest oil companies to account.</description>
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<title>Ecuador Plaintiffs Appeal U.S. Court Decision on Arbitration</title> 
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<description><![CDATA[ Lawyers for the Ecuadorian plaintiffs suing Chevron for dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste into Ecuador's Amazon filed a notice of appeal today in U.S. federal court seeking to prevent the oil giant from taking its claims to an international arbitration where the rainforest communities cannot appear. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:30:17 -0400</pubDate> 
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<title>NYC Judge Allows Chevron Arbitration to Proceed</title> 
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<description><![CDATA[ A judge ruled Thursday that Chevron can proceed with an international arbitration claim against Ecuador related to a 17-year-old court battle over rain forest contamination in that South American nation. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:34:56 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Chevron Faces Critical Hearing in New York Federal Court</title> 
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<description><![CDATA[ Chevron will be forced to explain to a U.S. federal judge this Wednesday why it believes it has the right to take the seven-year Ecuador environmental case (<em><em>Aguinda</em> v. ChevronTexaco</em>) to a closed-door binding arbitration where the rainforest communities cannot appear, in apparent violation of the company's previous promises that it would litigate the case in its requested forum of Ecuador. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:58:20 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Ecuadorean Indigenous Leader Asks CA Lawmakers for Support</title> 
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<description><![CDATA[ Today, an Indigenous leader from Ecuador is meeting with California legislators and asking for their support in a 16+ year campaign to demand Chevron remediate massive oil contamination affecting over 30,000 people. Emergildo Criollo has traveled from his home in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest region to deliver a direct message to Chevron's new CEO John Watson, along with more than 325,000 petitions signed by people in over 150 countries, supporting his appeal. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:25:03 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Amazon Watch and RAN Response to Chevron's Statements</title> 
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<description><![CDATA[ Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network requested to meet personally with new Chevron CEO John Watson in order to allow Emergildo the opportunity to deliver a direct appeal, and tell the story of how Chevron's contamintion has affected him and his family. Watson did not receive Emergildo and he was met instead by Chevron public relations executives. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:25:38 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Petition Delivery to Chevron Headquarters</title> 
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<description><![CDATA[ Indigenous Ecuadorean leader Emergildo Criollo traveled from Amazon rainforest to California to deliver 325,000+ letters urging Chevron’s new CEO John Watson to clean up the oil giant’s toxic legacy. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:34:40 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Chevron, Plaintiffs Seek Gains as Verdict Nears</title> 
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<description><![CDATA[ As a verdict nears in the long-running environmental lawsuit against Chevron Corp. in Ecuador, both sides are ratcheting up the pressure. This morning, a man who says oil field contamination in Ecuador's rain forest killed two of his children will try to meet with Chevron's new chief executive officer, John Watson. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:46:34 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Pressure Grows for Chevron to Clean Up Ecuador</title> 
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<description><![CDATA[ Today, an Indigenous Ecuadorean leader attempted to deliver letters from over 325,000 people urging Chevron's new CEO John Watson to clean up his company's toxic oil contamination in Ecuador. Emergildo Criollo traveled from his home in the Amazon rainforest to deliver a strong message from his community and supporters: Clean up Ecuador. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:38:48 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Chevron VP Charles James &quot;Retires&quot; Under Cloud of $27b Ecuador Liability</title> 
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<description><![CDATA[ Chevron's curt announcement last week that former general counsel Charles James is set to retire is due largely to his mishandling of the oil giant's "legal and public relations disaster" over a potential $27 billion environmental liability in Ecuador, representatives of the Amazon Defense Coalition (ADC) said today. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:44:51 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Response to Chevron's Myths about the Cabrera Report</title> 
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<description><![CDATA[ A point-by-point response to Chevron's misrepresentations about Richard Cabrera, a court-appointed expert who conducted a damages assessment not to the company’s liking. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:42:27 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Chevron Hit with Motion for Preliminary Injunction in Federal Court</title> 
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<description><![CDATA[ In a blistering attack against Chevron, lawyers for the government of Ecuador accused the oil giant of "triple forum shopping" and reneging on legally-enforceable promises in a motion asking a federal judge to shut down an international arbitration that Chevron is using to try to escape a potential $27 billion environmental liability. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:27:33 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Forward for press release with a bad URL</title> 
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:50:37 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Chevron Caught Misrepresenting Facts about Expert Report</title> 
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<description><![CDATA[ In its latest attempt to evade a $27 billion liability in Ecuador, Chevron is misrepresenting key facts about a court-appointed expert who conducted a damages assessment not to the company’s liking, representatives of the plaintiffs announced. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:42:31 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Chevron Facing Free Speech Problems Over Ecuador Lawsuit</title> 
<link>http://chevrontoxico.com/news-and-multimedia/2010/0126-chevron-facing-free-speech-problems.html</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Steven Karpas, director of the marathon, told the runners from RAN that "higher ups at Chevron are freaking out" and threatened to arrest them if they didn’t leave. Police then ejected the runners from the city-owned and operated building for exercising their right to free speech, giving rise to First Amendment claims against both the city of Houston and Chevron, according to RAN. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:03:05 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Plaintiffs Strike Back at Chevron's Cynical Game of Musical Jurisdictions</title> 
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<description><![CDATA[ The seventeen-year war between Ecuador’s 30,000 class plaintiffs against oil giant Chevron  continues its global odyssey, as the oil giant pulls out every trick in the book to avoid an impending $27 Billion judgment against it in Ecuador for contaminating an immense portion of rainforest and devastating the local population. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:30:06 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Activists Ousted from Expo for Chevron-Sponsored Marathon</title> 
<link>http://chevrontoxico.com/news-and-multimedia/2010/0115-activists-ousted-from-expo-for-chevron-sponsored-marathon.html</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ The environmental group Amazon Watch is welcoming new Chevron Chairman and CEO John Watson to his new post with a video and petition campaign urging him to clean up massive oil pollution in Ecuador. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:25:41 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Chevron Plaintiffs Ask U.S. Court for Action</title> 
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<description><![CDATA[ Plaintiffs suing Chevron Corp. for $27 billion in alleged environmental damages in Ecuador are asking a U.S. court to halt the company's bid to bring the case to international arbitration. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:38:26 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Amazon Tribes Sue Chevron in U.S. Federal Court to Stop Arbitration</title> 
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<description><![CDATA[ Representatives of Amazonian indigenous groups in Ecuador went to U.S. federal court in New York today to enjoin Chevron from initiating a closed-door international arbitration against Ecuador's government designed to eliminate the company's potential $27 billion liability for contaminating a huge swath of rainforest and devastating the local population. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:28:48 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Video Urges Chevron to Clean Up Oil Pollution</title> 
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<description><![CDATA[ The environmental group Amazon Watch is welcoming new Chevron Chairman and CEO John Watson to his new post with a video and petition campaign urging him to clean up massive oil pollution in Ecuador. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:17:32 -0500</pubDate> 
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<title>Ecuadoreans to New Chevron CEO: &quot;We Don't Want to Continue Dying from Cancer&quot;</title> 
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<description><![CDATA[ Amazon Watch's Clean Up Ecuador Campaign is launching a global petition to Mr. Watson, with an accompanying video-message, asking him to take a new approach as CEO and rectify the human rights and environmental disaster experts call the "Amazon Chernobyl." In the video, community members appeal directly to Watson to visit Ecuador and address the oil company's toxic legacy.  ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:51:00 -0500</pubDate> 
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