Mark Schapiro, Mother Jones. November 18, 2009. Should we focus on industries paying to preserve distant trees rather than reducing emissions closer to home? It's the question of the day in Washington and Copenhagen.
Han Shan, AlterNet. October 30, 2009. It appears that American oil giant Chevron is employing methods -- and people -- that are as dirty as the toxic waste pits it left scattered across the rainforest floor.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet. September 2, 2009. Over the past 28 years, the oil giant has polluted rivers, poisoned the atmosphere and caused immeasurable damage to children.
Han Shan, AlterNet. August 26, 2009. The new film exposes an environmental tragedy experts call the "Amazon Chernobyl," and believe is the worst case of oil-related contamination ever.
Ben Terrall, AlterNet. June 5, 2009. Chevron's wrought destruction in the U.S., Angola, Burma, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, Ecuador, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Nigeria and the Philippines.
Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor. June 3, 2009. An Ecuadorean court alleges that Texaco, which was acquired by Chevron, knowingly unleashed toxins across an estimated 1,700 square miles.
Shannyn Moore, Huffington Post. March 31, 2009. Currently 6 million gallons of crude oil sit at the base of a volcano that has erupted 19 times in the last eight days.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. October 29, 2008. In 1998, Nigerian protesters occupying a Chevron oil platform were jailed and murdered. Now, the case is in a U.S. court.
Matt, Think Progress AlterNet: Election 2008. August 19, 2008. McCain visits oil platform owned by chevron, the same company his National Finance Co-Chairman lobbies for.
Bill Gallegos, New America Media. July 8, 2008. Richmond could be the first US city to decide to stand up to the Chevron oil company and impose a cap on its plans for further expansion.
Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet. June 19, 2008. Think Blackwater's days are numbered? Think again. Jeremy Scahill explains why its slaughter of Iraqis has not stopped the notorious mercenary firm.
Larry Bowoto, AlterNet. May 29, 2008. Chevron must admit it has used and paid Nigerian police and military to act as company thugs to harm and scare the local population.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. October 3, 2007. The barbarous military regime depends on revenue from the nation’s gas reserves and partners such as Chevron, a detail ignored by the Bush administration.
