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Last night, four Indigenous and community leaders from Ecuador arrived in very steamy New Orleans to share their experiences with the long-term impacts of oil pollution with communities dealing with the tragic BP oil spill that continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico. As the Chevron in Ecuador blog reports: Four very different people [...]
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As the largest oil disaster in US history unfolds in the Gulf, with the financial meltdown as a backdrop, the American public is finally waking up to the devastating consequences of decades of unchecked corporate power. These days, it seems like the only people who trust corporations, especially the dirtiest and most deceitful energy companies, [...]
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Cross-posted from The San Francisco Chronicle. In advance of Chevron’s annual shareholder meeting in Houston next week, a damning report of the oil giant’s global operations was just released. The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report was written by contributors from 16 countries and 10 states where Chevron’s business is wreaking havoc on [...]
Continue reading...By Brianna, May 3 2010
On Thursday, April 29th, Sex and the City star (and RAN’s newest Honorary Board member) Chris Noth threw RAN a fabulous birthday bash at Manhattan’s (Le) Poisson Rogue. Chris Noth has been a supporter of Rainforest Action Network for over 20 years now and started throwing a yearly NYC benefit party a few years back. [...]
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This week’s hilarious *and dangerous* Greenwash of the Week webisode takes on The Copenhagen Accord, a political greenwash of epic proportions. This week’s episode comes on the heels of a leaked document about the Obama administration’s spin strategy around the climate negotiations. The Guardian reports: A document accidentally left on a European hotel computer and [...]
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Today, Chevron’s ever present PR team is pushing out an announcement about how much Chevron loves Southern California schools. According to the press release and tweets, the oil giant is donating $1 million to South Bay schools. The truth is, Chevron cares more about their image than California students. Our struggling schools here in California [...]
Continue reading...By Brianna, April 6 2010
In light of today’s shocking revelations about longtime Chevron contractor Diego Borja, we are launching a confidential hotline for Chevron employees to report ‘suspect’ activities by the oil giant. This Chevron whistleblower hotline is toll-free and confidential. 1-877-844-4114 A confidential Spanish-language hotline is also being established in Ecuador. We hope Chevron employees and contractors, who [...]
Continue reading...By Brianna, March 22 2010
Today, Chevron’s PR team is out in full force! And no, today they’re not lying to the public about their toxic legacy in Ecuador, climate change, their massive greenhouse gas emissions, their expansion into the tar sands of Canada, their human rights abuses in Nigeria, or their massive dirty energy lobbying and campaign expenditures. Nope. [...]
Continue reading...By Brianna, March 5 2010
This past week, Emergildo Criollo, an Indigenous Ecuador leader of the Cofan people traveled 3,000 miles from his home in the Amazon rainforest to California. He came to California to share his story and ask for support in getting one of the world’s largest oil companies (Chevron) to clean up one of the largest environmental [...]
Continue reading...By Brianna, March 4 2010
Last night, Emergildo Criollo, the Indigenous leader from Ecuador, met with California legislators and asked for their support in the 16+ year campaign to demand Chevron remediate massive oil contamination affecting over 30,000 people. Along with supporters from Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network, Emergildo spoke with lawmakers about the impact of California’s largest company [...]
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By Brianna, June 28 2010
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