Selected News and Multimedia
PRESS KITS
Key Documents & Court Filings from the Aguinda Legal Team (April-July 2011)
Press Kit on the Lago Agrio Ruling and Chevron's Retaliatory Attacks (March 2011)
Press Kit for Texaco's Sham Remediation of Contamination at Well Sites (February 2011)
SPECIAL REPORTS
What Chevron Doesn't Want You To See
June 28th - July 2nd: Indigenous Delegation from Ecuador to the Gulf Coast
Chevron "Cooked" Evidence in Environmental Trial, According to Oil Giant's Own Contractor
Chevron's Corruption of Ecuador Trial
PRESS RELEASES
Chevron Offered Suitcase Full of Cash to Former Ecuador Judge Guerra in Exchange for Testimony
1 May 2013 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron Faces Asset Seizure In Brazil Over $18 Billion Ecuador Judgment
27 June 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Ecuadorians Hit Chevron With $18 Billion Enforcement Action In Canada
30 May 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Devastating Evidence of Chevron Destruction Undergirds $18 Billion Ecuador Appellate Decision
5 January 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition
New York Comptroller Urges Chevron to Save "Battered Reputation" In Ecuador Litigation
5 October 2011 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Wikileaks Cables Expose Chevron's Lobbying of Ecuador Government to Kill $18 Billion Environmental Case
21 September 2011 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Federal Court Hears Arguments to Compel Chevron "Dirty Tricks" Operative Diego Borja to Testify Immediately on Charges He Assisted Oil Giant In Corrupting Environmental Lawsuit
16 February 2011 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron Found Guilty in Landmark Trial; Plaintiffs Respond
15 February 2011 | Amazon Watch
Statement on Ecuador Court Ruling Against Chevron
14 February 2011 | Amazon Watch, RAN
Statement by Ecuadorian Plaintiffs on Judgment Against Chevron
14 February 2011 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron, Trying to Fight Ecuador Lawsuit, Now Claiming Plaintiffs Don't Really Exist
28 January 2011 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Plaintiff's Final Arguments In Ecuador Court Show "Overwhelming" Proof of Chevron Contamination
24 January 2011 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Video: Chevron Oilfield Worker Describes Toxic Dumping in Ecuador
8 November 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron Hit Hard In Sworn Testimony Over Massive Ecuador Liability
6 October 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron Faces Tens of Billions in Clean-up Costs; Potential Death Toll Put at 10,000 in Ecuador Rainforest
17 September 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Court Orders Deposition of Chevron Contractor
16 September 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Lawsuit Targets Chevron "Dirty Tricks" Operative Over Ecuador Video Corruption Scandal
14 September 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron Fraud in Ecuador: Response to Fortune.com Article
13 September 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron Fraud Evidence Mounts in Ecuador
13 September 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Court Filing: Chevron’s Own Audits Prove Company Lied About Massive Pollution in Ecuador
31 August 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron Abused Federal Court With "False and Misleading" Use of Ecuador Footage, Says Filmmaker
11 August 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Ecuador Court Invites Final Submissions on Damages in Chevron Environmental Lawsuit
09 August 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron Outed for Corporate Espionage Spy Scandal in Ecuador's Amazon Rainforest
03 August 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Statement from Ecuador Plaintiffs Regarding Chevron's Attempt to Obtain Private Film Outtakes
14 July 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron Facing Rising Tide of Public Anger Over BP-Like Environmental Tragedy in Amazon Rainforest
7 June 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Filmmaker's Battle With Chevron Gains Support of The New York Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, HBO, Dow Jones, AP, Hearst, Gannett and The Washington Post
2 June 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron Lawyer Faces Sanctions for Misleading Court Over "Dirty Tricks" Operation in Ecuador
27 April 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron Lied To Columbia Journalism Review About Toxic Oil Well
20 April 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron Whistleblower Reveals Evidence Tampering in Ecuador, but Oil Giant Ignores It
16 April 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron "Cooked" Evidence in Ecuador Environmental Trial, According to Oil Giant's Own Contractor
06 April 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Ecuadorean Communities to New Chevron CEO: "We Don't Want to Continue Dying from Cancer"
13 January 2010 | Amazon Watch
Chevron Finishing Brutal Year On Ecuador Issue
30 December 2009 | Amazon Defense Coalition
LA Times Blasts Chevron For Interfering With U.S. Trade Policy Over $27 Billion Ecuador Lawsuit
04 December 2009 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron Using Six Public Relations Firms to Discredit Indigenous Groups In $27.3 Billion Environmental Case In Ecuador
20 November 2009 | Amazon Defense Coalition
U.S. Congresswoman Labels Chevron's Trade Preferences Lobbying Effort "Extortion" In Testimony
17 November 2009 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Kerry Kennedy Accuses Chevron of Cultural Genocide in Ecuador Rainforest
06 November 2009 | Amazon Defense Coalition
American Who Shot Secret Videos for Chevron in Ecuador Is Convicted Drug Trafficker
29 October 2009 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron Admits Its Lawyers Present at Key Meeting with Ecuador Man Who Taped Video Scandal
28 October 2009 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron Shareholders Warned That Board of Directors Is Shirking Its Fiduciary Duties On Ecuador
25 May 2009 | Amazon Watch
Criminal Indictment of Chevron Lawyers Based on Wide Body of Scientific Evidence
15 September 2008 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Ecuadorian Campaigners Win Prestigious Environmental Prize for Fight to hold Chevron Accountable for Rainforest Disaster
13 April 2008 | Amazon Watch
Court Expert Smacks Chevron With Up to $16 Billion in Damages for Polluting Indigenous Lands in Amazon
2 April 2008 | Amazon Defense Coalition
NEWS
Chevron May Rethink Ecuador Strategy after US Court Move on Shell: Analyst
18 October 2011 | Platts
What Chevron Owes the People of Lago Agrio
26 September 2011 | Huffington Post
Chevron Lobbying Efforts Revealed by Leaked Cables
22 September 2011 | Courthouse News Service
US Court's Decision in Ecuador Case Could See Chevron Assets Seized: Analyst
21 September 2011 | Platts
US Court Rules Against Chevron in Ecuador Oil Case
20 September 2011 | BBC News
Order Barring Ecuador from Collecting $18 Billion Vacated
19 September 2011 | Associated Press
Appeals Court Sides with Ecuadorians in Chevron Suit
19 September 2011 | San Francisco Chronicle
The Man Who Humbled Chevron
6 June 2011 | El País
Chevron Feels the Heat
26 May 2011 | AlterNet
Third Circuit Issues Not-So-Veiled Rebuke to Judge Kaplan in Lago Agrio Litigation Against Chevron
25 May 2011 | American Lawyer
Chevron Chiefs Face Shareholders after Huge $18bn Ecuador Fine
25 May 2011 | Guardian UK
Activists' True Cost Report Takes on Chevron
24 May 2011 | San Francisco Chronicle
Judge in Chevron Trial Asked to Recuse Himself
27 April 2011 | Courthouse News Service
Chevron Could Take Big Hit From Potential Payout in Ecuador
31 March 2011 | The Street
Chevron Down as It Continues to Fight $27B Environmental Lawsuit in Ecuador
24 August 2010 | FOXBusiness
Ecuador's Oil-Waste Victims Share Solidarity
2 July 2010 | Daily Comet
Ecuador Tribe in Rare Visit to Help Clean-Up Lousiana Oil Spill
30 June 2010 | Al Jazeera
Was Oil Named 'Crude' Because of the Way Oil Companies Do Business?
8 June 2010 | Huffington Post
Disaster in the Amazon
4 June 2010 | The New York Times
Joe Berlinger vs. Chevron: Why We Must All Defend Independent Filmmaking
4 June 2010 | Huffington Post
Chevron's "Crude" Attempt to Suppress Free Speech
14 May 2010 | Huffington Post
Message from Ecuador to Chevron CEO John Watson
12 January 2010
Letter from Atossa Soltani to New Chevron CEO, John Watson
17 December 2009
Trading with Ecuador
03 December 2009 | Los Angeles Times
Chevron's Lobby Campaign Backfires
16 November 2009 | Politico
Revelation Undermines Chevron Case In Ecuador
29 October 2009 | The New York Times
Report Adds Bizarre Twist to Ecuador Chevron Case
29 October 2009 | Reuters
Felon Involved in Clandestine Videos
29 October 2009 | Associated Press
Ecuador Oil Pollution Case Takes New Turn
29 October 2009 | Al Jazeera
Kerry Kennedy Interviewed by Rick Sanchez on CNN
22 October 2009 | CNN
Lawyer Steven Donziger On Chevron's Warped Values In Ecuador
16 September 2009 | Forbes
KQED's Forum Discussion of "The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report"
28 May 2009 | KQED Forum
When Chevron Hires Ex-Reporter to Investigate Pollution, Chevron Looks Good
10 May 2009 | The New York Times
In Ecuador, High Stakes in Case Against Chevron
28 April 2009 | The Washington Post
Texaco Toxic Past Haunts Chevron as Judgment Looms
30 December 2008 | Bloomberg
Chevron, Ecuador In Costly Environmental Dispute
18 September 2008 | Tell Me More, NPR
Chevron's $16 Billion Problem
26 July 2008 | Newsweek
Chevron Is to Blame for Ecuador's Oil Pollution
26 April 2008 | The Wall Street Journal
Jungle Law
4 April 2007 | Vanity Fair
Rain Forest Jekyll and Hyde?
20 October 2005 | New York Times
DOCUMENTS
In the Dark
May 2013
David v. Goliath: A Scorecard
May 2013
Chevron Ecuador Risk Analysis Report
May 2012 | An independent report commissioned by Oil Change International
Chevron's Misrepresentations in Public Filings Regarding its $18.1 Billion Environmental Liability in Ecuador
April 2012
Clean Up Ecuador Campaign Briefing Paper
Spring 2012 | Amazon Watch
Chevron Ecuador Risk Analysis Report
May 2011 | An independent report commissioned by Amazon Watch & Rainforest Action Network
An Open Letter to the People of the United States from the Ecuadorian Plaintiffs
30 April 2011 | Asamblea de Afectados por Texaco
Statement of Stratus Consulting Regarding Chevron Countersuit
3 February 2011 | Stratus Consulting
Amazon Watch's Response to Chevron's Outrageous Accusations
3 February 2011 | Amazon Watch
Summary of Final Argument (Part I)
24 January 2011 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Summary of Analysis of Damages to Ecuador's Amazon Basin
17 September 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Report: The Lasting Stain of Oil
28 June 2010 | Amazon Watch
Response to Chevron's Myths about the Cabrera Report
10 February 2010 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Letter from Atossa Soltani to New Chevron CEO, John Watson
17 December 2009
American Who Shot Secret Videos for Chevron in Ecuador Is Convicted Drug Trafficker
29 October 2009 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Statement by Human Rights Activist Kerry Kennedy After Touring the Chevron Oil Pits in the Ecuadorian Rainforest and Speaking to Local Residents
15 October 2009
Questions about Chevron Role in Ecuador Bribery Scandal
September 2009
Amazon Watch Letter to Shareholders
25 May 2009 | Amazon Watch
Evidence of Contamination at Texaco-Operated Sites
10 September 2008 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Evidence of Fraudulent Remediation
September 2008 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Fact Sheet on 2008 Indictment of Chevron Lawyers in Ecuador
September 2008
Chevron Around the World: Fact Sheet
June 2008
PHOTOS
Victims of Chevron's Contamination React to Being Sued by Company
7 February 2011
Chevron AGM 2010 Action
25 May 2010
Petition Delivery to Chevron Headquarters
04 March 2010
Activists Confront CEO-to-be John Watson at the Chamber of Commerce
27 October 2009
San Francisco Premiere of CRUDE
26 September 2009
Los Angeles Premiere of CRUDE
10 September 2009
New York City Premiere of CRUDE
10 September 2009
Chevron AGM 2009 Action
27 May 2009
Crude Reflections
April 2005
AUDIO
Free Speech Radio News previews CRUDE
9 September 2009 | Free Speech Radio News
KQED's Forum Discussion of "The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report"
28 May 2009 | KQED Forum
Clean Up Ecuador Campaign Wins the Top BENNY Award for 2008
November 19 2008 | Corporate Watchdog Radio
Chevron, Ecuador In Costly Environmental Dispute
18 September 2008 | Tell Me More, NPR
VIDEO
Delegation from Ecuadorian Amazon Demands Justice from Chevron
14 June 2011
Carmen Zambrano: Mother & Community Leader vs. Chevron
19 May 2011
Servio Curipoma Arrives in New York to Tell His Story
18 May 2011
Chevron in Ecuador: A Defining Moment
12 May 2011
An Open Letter to the People of the United States from the Ecuadorian Plaintiffs
30 April 2011
Former Chevron/Texaco Worker in Ecuador: We Dumped Pollution into the Rainforest
27 October 2010
Ecuador Tribe in Rare Visit to Help Clean-Up Lousiana Oil Spill
30 June 2010 | Al Jazeera
Message from Ecuador to Chevron CEO John Watson
12 January 2010
Ecuador Oil Pollution Case Takes New Turn
29 October 2009 | Al Jazeera
Kerry Kennedy Interviewed by Rick Sanchez on CNN
22 October 2009 | CNN
Highlights from the LA Premiere of CRUDE
25 September 2009
60 Seconds
18 August 2009
Amazon Crude on 60 Minutes
3 May 2009 | CBS
Chevron: The Real Human Story in Ecuador
8 September 2008
Chevron's Inhumane Energy
14 April 2008