News and Multimedia from 2009
Chevron Expects to Fight Ecuador Lawsuit in U.S.
As Largest Environmental Judgment on Record Looms, the Oil Company Reassures Shareholders It Won't Pay
20 July 2009 | Wall Street Journal
Chevron says it has given up the prospect of winning the case because the Ecuadorian court system is heavily influenced by President Rafael Correa, who has publicly sided with the plaintiffs. The company says it plans to appeal the case in Ecuador, but has little hope of prevailing. More »
Does a Senior Obama Official Have Unseemly Ties to Notorious Human Rights Abuser Chevron?
The story of this slick oil company's romance with the government has recently taken a crude twist.
10 July 2009 | Alternet
"Giving Chevron an award for its fight against malaria is like giving Phillip Morris an award for smoking cessation programs," says Steve Kretzmann, a longtime environmental activist and Executive Director of Oil Change International. More »
What's in a Name?
Critics are troubled by an award to Chevron named after Richard Holbrooke, a high-ranking Obama official.
7 July 2009 | Newsweek
It's no secret that Chevron finds lots of ways to influence the debate in Washington: they make campaign contributions, they hire high-powered lobbyists and they invest heavily in advertising campaigns to persuade the public (and capital decision makers) that they are good "corporate citizens." More »
Chevron Fails in Effort to Lift Trade Benefits
2 July 2009 | Inter-Press Service
In the latest in a string of setbacks that could cost the U.S. oil giant Chevron billions of dollars in damages, President Barack Obama decided this week to extend trade preferences for Ecuadorean exports for another six months under the 1991 Andean Trade Preferences Act (ATPA). More »
Chevron Rebuffed On Ecuador Trade Benefits By Obama Administration
Oil Giant Had Tried to Lobby USTR Over $27 Billion Environmental Liability in Ecuador’s Amazon
1 July 2009 | Amazon Defense Coalition
In a setback over its attempt to avoid a $27 billion environmental liability, Chevron has failed for the third time in as many years to convince the Obama and Bush administrations to cancel bilateral trade benefits for Ecuador in retaliation for letting indigenous groups sue the oil giant in that country’s courts. More »
US Senators Seek Chevron/Ecuador Trial Without US Meddling
30 June 2009 | Reuters
Four senators have written to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, criticizing what they understand is a push by Chevron Corp to cut trade benefits for Ecuador, where the oil company faces a $27 billion claim in court. More »
U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Chevron Appeal Over $27 Billion Ecuador Environmental Case
Latest in Series of Legal Setbacks for Oil Giant
29 June 2009 | Amazon Defense Coalition
The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to hear an appeal by Chevron of a decision by a U.S. federal trial judge that denied the oil giant's attempt to shift a $27.3 billion liability for environmental contamination in the Amazon rainforest to Ecuador's state-owned oil company. More »
Supreme Court Rejects Chevron Appeal Against Ecuadorian Oil Co.
29 June 2009 | Dow Jones
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it won't decide whether an Ecuadorian oil company can be held partially responsible in a $27 billion case against its former business partner, Texaco Petroleum Co., a unit of Chevron Corp. More »
Four Senators Urge USTR to Ignore Chevron Petition On Ecuador Legal Case
Sens. Wyden, Casey, Durbin and Leahy Sign Letter Expressing “Concern” About Chevron Effort to Link Environmental Case to Trade Benefits
29 June 2009 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Four U.S. Senators are urging the United States Trade Representative to reject efforts by Chevron to threaten the cancellation of trade benefits for Ecuador because the oil giant faces a $27.3 billion liability in the South American nation for dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste into the Amazon rainforest. More »
Chevron's Amazon 'Fake Cleanup' Trial
25 June 2009 | United Press International
A report submitted this week to a court in Ecuador finding dangerous levels of contamination at oil wells Chevron says it cleaned up in the 1990s is expected to reinforce a fraud indictment against two Chevron lawyers in a $27.3 billion environmental lawsuit against the oil company. More »
