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Chevron Fights Amazon Pollution Verdict in U.S. Court

2013-10-16 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: Two years after they were awarded 18 billion dollars by an Ecuadorian court for environmental damage caused by Chevron in the Amazonian rainforest, a group of indigenous villagers and their U.S. lawyer went on trial Tuesday in New York, accused by the oil company of bribery and racketeering. Chevron was found liable in 2011 for an ecological catastrophe caused by pollution released in the 1970s and 1980s by Texaco, which Chevron acquired in 2001 and for which they agreed to assume legal obligations....

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