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Dishonest Reporting: Fortune’s Roger Parloff Delivers A Hit Job for Chevron

Fortune writer Roger Parloff has used dishonest reporting to help Chevron cover its tracks in the wake of its horrific human rights disaster in Ecuador – a disaster where Chevron admitted that...

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How Chevron Squanders Big Bucks on Ecuador Case

Want a good example of how the lawyers at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher rip off their wealthy client Chevron?It is becoming increasingly obvious that Chevron CEO John Watson and General Counsel R. Hewitt...

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No Love for Chevron In U.S. Courts

Chevron’s courtroom setbacks in the U.S. related to its $19 billion Ecuador liability are piling up as CEO John Watson faces increased shareholder pressure around the world to settle the case,...

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Richmond Residents Stand Up To Chevron

The Richmond, CA City Council voted for a resolution pushing Chevron to become a better corporate citizen in the city that Chevron has neglected for decades, even as its refinery pollutes and harms the...

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Why is Chevron trying to intimidate journalists? And why is Google helping them?

The FAIR radio program (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) reported this today: "Chevron is going to great lengths to silence journalists reporting on its dealings in Ecuador. The latest maneuver is...

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Chevron Scared To Return ACLU's Calls Over Private Emails

Lawyers from the ACLU called Chevron to complain about trying to get personal data from the Google gmail account of their client, a writer and law professor who blogs about legal issues, including the...

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U.S. Supreme Court Squelches Chevron Appeal On Ecuador Case

The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected Chevron’s latest attempt to block global enforcement of a historic $19 billion environmental judgment from Ecuador’s courts, removing another hurdle for rainforest...

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Ted Olson Loses a Big One for Chevron Before the U.S. Supreme Court

Ted Olson needs to learn that it’s hard to put lipstick on Chevron’s pig in Ecuador.In yet another setback for Chevron, the U.S. Supreme Court this week declined a petition signed by Olson to restore...

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Chevron Facing Wall Street Criticism Over $19 Billion Ecuador Liability

Wall Street analysts rarely take controversial positions on publicly traded companies whose stock is doing well. But Chevron’s mishandling of its $19 billion liability in Ecuador for dumping toxins...

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Court Grants Ecuador Villagers First Big Victory Against Chevron Assets

Rainforest villagers from Ecuador scored their first significant collection victory against Chevron’s assets this week in their attempt to enforce the historic $19 billion judgment against the oil...

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Chevron’s Ecuador $19 billion Pollution Problem Now An Issue in Florida...

Chevron's oil-related catastrophe in Ecuador (See here and here) is now an issue in the hotly-contested Florida Senate race between Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson and his challenger, Republican...

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Privacy Advocates Say Chevron Wants to "Harass and Intimidate" People...

Courthouse News writes that privacy advocates say Chevron "wants to  harass and intimidate critics of a massive oil contamination in Ecuador with intrusive subpoenas of more than 70 email...

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Not Chump Change: $2 Billion In Chevron Assets Likely Frozen In Argentina Soon

The Ecuadorians, who recently won a $19 billion judgment against Chevron for oil contamination in the Amazon rainforest, have filed a lawsuit in Argentina, asking a court to freeze $2 billion in...

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Hell Froze Over As Argentina Embargoes Chevron's $2 Billion In Assets

Yesterday, hell froze over when an Argentine court embargoed or, in effect, froze up to potentially $19 billion in Chevron assets in the South American country.Now it's time to fight it out on the...

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Which Is It? Chevron Tells Shareholders Ecuador Case Under Control But Swears...

In his recent blog, Shareholder Shocker: Chevron's Assets Frozen in Argentina, Amazon Watch's Kevin Koenig explores the lack of shareholder disclosure and the outright lies Chevron is telling its...

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Chevron’s Latest “Defense” In Ecuador Case: Hide Assets In Subsidiaries

After a dreadful series of legal setbacks, it sure didn’t take long for Chevron to come up with a new tricked-up defense to evade the $19 billion Ecuador environmental judgment.Like Chevron’s many...

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BP Held Accountable For Deaths & Oil Spill; Chevron Remains Fugitive From...

Today BP got hit with four arrests for manslaughter and lying to Congress and $3 to $5 billion in federal fines for the ACCIDENTAL oil spill that resulted in 11 deaths and an estimated $40 billion plus...

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Did President Obama & His Justice Department Extort Money From BP?

Did President Obama and the U.S. Department of Justice extort the billion-dollar damage settlement with BP for its 2010 accidental spill off the Gulf Coast? Based on legal arguments being made in a...

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Gibson Dunn, Chevron Suffer Another Devastating Setback In $19 Billion...

The U.S. law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher is getting hit with a new round of hurt because of its bungling of Chevron’s Ecuador environmental case.The recent order in Argentine to freeze roughly $2...

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A Race For Time? Chevron Desperate to Extort Its Way Out of Paying $19...

An Argentine newspaper La Nacion reported that Chevron is in a "race for time" to convince a court in Argentina to lift a freeze of its assets as payment of the $19 billion judgment for oil...

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