Hot Gossip From A Global Warmer!
This is some seriously underrated tea on #Chevron, the oil company acting like Regina George (actually though).
By Eamon Levesque | Jul 31, 2023
From the article:
Donziger’s three-decade legal battle with Chevron is a pain to summarize. Key to understand is that he represented 30,000 Ecuadorian indigenous residents of the Amazon in a lawsuit against oil giant Chevron.
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https://www.bylinebyline.com/articles/hot-gossip-from-a-global-warmer
Per coverage at the time, Donziger and his team argued that a company Chevron purchased dumped “18 billion gallons of toxic waste… leading to 1,000-plus deaths from cancer and to ecological damage beyond repair.” In a landmark 2013 victory, courts in Ecuador ordered Chevron pay $9.5 billion in damages.
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Chevron responded by suing Donziger in the U.S. for $60 billion — for scale, that’s roughly one Koch brother. The Intercept and others have noted that Chevron’s case against Steven hinged on a witness that Chevron had paid “hundreds of thousands” of dollars, and a judge with “a soft spot” for the oil company. Though damages were dropped, Donziger was found guilty, disbarred, imprisoned, placed on house arrest, and remains unable to leave the country.
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https://theintercept.com/2020/01/29/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-steven-donziger/
