News and Multimedia from 2008
Texaco Toxic Past Haunts Chevron as Judgment Looms
30 December 2008 | Bloomberg
Bolivar Cevallos walks around the farm where his family once lived amid the oil fields of Ecuador's Amazon rain forest. His boots sink ankle deep in tar. More »
Chevron Denied Again by Federal Appeals Court Over Ecuador Rainforest Contamination
Second Setback in Weeks Over $27 Billion Liability
22 December 2008 | Amazon Defense Coalition
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York has denied for a second time in a matter of weeks an attempt by Chevron to evade a multi-billion dollar liability in a legal case over environmental contamination in the Amazon rainforest. More »
Amazon Pollution Case Could Cost Chevron Billions
20 December 2008 | Associated Press
When the sun beats particularly hot on this land in the middle of the jungle, the roads sweat petroleum. A Rhode Island-sized expanse of what was once pristine Amazon rainforest is crisscrossed with oil wells and pipeline grids built by Texaco Inc. a generation ago. More »
Shareholders, Wall Street Concerned Over Chevron's $27 Billion Environmental Liability in Ecuador
8 December 2008 | Amazon Watch
Concern among Wall Street analysts and shareholders that the oil giant has failed to set aside sufficient reserves and has not fully disclosed its risk for what could be one of the largest civil judgments in history More »
Chevron's $27 Billion Liability in Ecuador's Amazon Confirmed by Team of Independent Scientists
Hundreds of Cancer Deaths Due to Ecological Devastation
1 December 2008 | Amazon Defense Coalition
An increase in Chevron's potential environmental liability in Ecuador's Amazon to $27 billion is "reasonable" given new scientific data about groundwater contamination and hundreds of additional cancer deaths due to oil contamination. More »
Chevron Hires Global Warming Denier as Consultant
Oil Giant Charged With Hypocrisy for Ad Campaign Touting "Green" Image While Humanitarian Crisis Festers In Amazon
24 November 2008 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron has hired a "scientist" affiliated with a think tank dedicated to denying the threat of global warming while it spends tens of millions of dollars on a national advertising campaign to promote a "green" image. More »
U.S. Congressman Finds "Humanitarian Crisis" In Ecuador's Amazon Rainforest
Over 30,000 Ecuadorians Drink From Contaminated Water Sources
20 November 2008 | Amazon Defense Coalition
U.S. Congressman Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, who chairs the House Human Rights Caucus, has released a letter written to President-Elect Barack Obama that describes a "terrible humanitarian and environmental crisis" in Ecuador's Amazon where Texaco operated a large oil concession from 1964 to 1990. More »
Clean Up Ecuador Campaign Wins the Top BENNY Award for 2008
November 19 2008 | Corporate Watchdog Radio
The Top BENNY Award for 2008 went to the Clean Up Ecuador campaign for bringing Chevron to justice for decades of pollution in the Amazon. More »
Ecuador Keeps Up Oil Cleanup Fight Against Chevron
17 November 2008 | Los Angeles Times
On one side are 30,000 mostly peasant farmers who say they are living a health and ecological nightmare caused by careless oil drilling and production methods. On the other side is defendant Chevron, which produced oil here from 1972 to 1990, and which the lawsuit claims polluted a vast swath of the Amazon. More »
High-Stakes Trial in San Francisco Focuses Attention on Chevron's Growing Human Rights Problems Around Globe
Oil Giant Seems Increasingly Out of Step with Industry Rivals with Accusations It Helped Orchestrate Deaths of Nigerian Villagers
Hiring of Bush Administration "Torture Lawyer" Latest Controversy
27 October 2008 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron is embarking today on a high stakes defense in U.S. federal court against charges that it helped orchestrate the killing of two Nigerian villagers at a time when its corporate legal department is under mounting pressure for disregarding human rights issues. More »
