Ecuador: Chevron’s Legal Strategy Derailed, Ecuadoreans Score Major Victory In Amazon ...

Ecuador: Chevron’s Legal Strategy Derailed, Ecuadoreans Score Major Victory In Amazon Pollution Case   Yesterday, a US court dealt Chevron a severe blow after lifting a ban on an $18bn judgment against the oil giant for contaminating the Amazon. A New York appeals court vacated a lower court's order that had blocked Ecuadorean plaintiffs from collecting money in a long-running lawsuit over pollution in their Amazon rainforest home.   In February, a judge in Ecuador ruled that Chevron should...

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