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Chron.com
February 17, 2018
The company claims the lawyers, public officials and environmental activists are "conspiring" against it in a coordinated legal and public relations ... a civil racketeering suit against Steven Donziger, the attorney behind a $9.5 billion Ecuadorean judgment against the company over pollution in the Amazon.
Insurance Journal
February 15, 2018
Plaintiff lawyers and legal experts contend the oil giant's tactics are meant to intimidate while shifting the spotlight away from claims of environmental damage. And they say there's nothing improper with lawyers discussing legal strategies together. “It's crazy that people are subpoenaed for attending aÃÂ ...
AlterNet
January 30, 2018
Indigenous and farmer communities living in Ecuador's rainforest have sent the U.S. Department of Justice what they say is evidence of Chevron's ... fossil fuel companies, which they say owes them billions for the environmental damage that it caused, known around the world as the "Amazon Chernobyl.".
New York Times
January 28, 2018
Critics have been skeptical, arguing that projects bankrolled through the initiative will bury the recipients in debt and cause environmental damage. ... the rising influence in South America of China, which has increased investments in his country and extended enormous loans to Venezuela and Ecuador.
Tampabay.com
January 18, 2018
The Galapagos: Ecuador heavily regulates tourism in the Galapagos as part of its environmental conservation policies, but Fodor's says the islands' fragile ... Phang Nga Park, Thailand: Fodor's says "the rush to paradise has overwhelmed" some of Thailand's beaches with pollution and overuse. SuccessfulÃÂ ...
Triple Pundit (blog)
January 18, 2018
QUITO, Ecuador, Jan. 17 /CSRwire/ – Rainforest villagers from Ecuador have issued a stern warning to Chevron to stop any attempts to corrupt the $9.5 billion environmental judgment against the company following the stunning news that indicted political operative and oil industry lobbyist Paul ManafortÃÂ ...
McClatchy Washington Bureau
January 16, 2018
The environmental damage and human misery mirror the scale of Africa's “blood diamonds,” experts say. ... Mining regions in the rainforest have become epicenters of human trafficking, disease and environmental destruction, according to government officials and human rights investigators. Miners areÃÂ ...
Daily Mirror
January 15, 2018
Nearly 928.2 kilos of cocaine worth Rs.16.7 billion seized by the Police Narcotic Bureau in 2016, was prepared for destruction today in the presence of ... This entire stock of cocaine was seized from a ship bound to India from Ecuador on December 9, 2016 and was the biggest stock of cocaine to beÃÂ ...
Caribbean360.com
January 12, 2018
She outlined the effects of environmental pollution and climate change on health at an event on Eminent Personalities of the South, organized in Quito by the Government of Ecuador in its role as president of the Group of 77 and China. Etienne noted that about 12.6 million deaths a year are attributable toÃÂ ...
Eagle-Tribune
January 8, 2018
Ecuador heavily regulates tourism in the Galapagos as part of its environmental conservation policies, but Fodor's says the islands' fragile ecosystems remain vulnerable. ... Fodor's cites the deterioration of sections of the Great Wall of China and air pollution in Beijing as reasons to stay away. Cuba.
Traveller
January 5, 2018
"The rush to paradise has overwhelmed" some of Thailand's beaches with pollution and overuse. Photo: Alamy ... Photo: Craig Platt. Ecuador heavily regulates tourism in the Galapagos as part of its environmental conservation policies, but Fodor's says the islands' fragile ecosystems remain vulnerable.
chinadialogue
December 28, 2017
Although it is unlikely to return to the high of 2014 (some researchers think coal consumption in China will never reach 2014 levels again), coal consumption acts as a barometer for China's environmental progress (on air pollution and climate change) and this year reminds us that while there are manyÃÂ ...
The Intercept
December 27, 2017
“The impact of [oil activity] in the headwaters of the Amazon extends well beyond the boundaries of oil concessions and national borders,” states a recent paper in the journal Environmental Pollution, “[and] should be taken into consideration when evaluating large scale anthropogenic impacts in theÃÂ ...
Intercontinental Cry
December 14, 2017
11) between Ecuadorian indigenous leaders and President of Ecuador Lenin Moreno that lasted several hours, the government committed to resolve multiple key demands ... Today's presidential promise does little to abate environmental destruction and rights violations from existing mining concessions.
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (blog)
December 13, 2017
Three Latin American journalists appear on the Committee to Protect Journalist's (CPJ) annual census of journalists imprisoned around the world. Guatemalan Jerson Antonio Xitumul Morales, Ecuadoran Enrique Rosales Ortega and Venezuelan Braulio Jatar are three of the 262 journalists imprisonedÃÂ ...
National Observer
December 11, 2017
Chevron has refused to pay US$9.5 billion as ordered by Ecuador's top court several years ago for extensive environmental damages from the toxic waste of crude oil production decades ago ... Steven Donziger, lead lawyer for the Ecuadorian plaintiffs, at the site of early Texaco (later Chevron) oil pollution.
teleSUR English
December 9, 2017
A joint study by the Ecuadorian Department of Health; the SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY; and the University of California San Francisco in Sacramento concludes the conditions caused a spike in incidents of the Zika virus and other vector-borne diseases, such as dengue fever.
Mongabay.com
December 31, 1999
Sevilla explained that extracting oil from an ecosystem as fragile as the ITT area could lead to “brutal damage from events like the glare of the torches that are always lit, the air pollution, and the noise that the whole process includes … Not to mention the destruction of the forest's continuity, which affects theÃÂ ...
Dallas News
December 31, 1999
The company claims the lawyers, public officials and environmental activists are "conspiring" against it in a coordinated legal and public relations ... a civil racketeering suit against Steven Donziger, the attorney behind a $9.5 billion Ecuadorian judgment against the company over pollution in the Amazon.
Mongabay.com
December 31, 1999
Despite its resplendent landscape, it is impossible to miss the pollution: the town and river are littered with trash, and locals have all but stopped fishing as ... methods, but the expansion of coca and gold rush had irrevocably changed their lives – transforming their culture, diet, and polluting the environment.
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Pollution in the capital and in 27 other northeastern cities has dropped 33 percent on average, compared with the last three months of 2016. In Beijing ... Ecuador granted citizenship to Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks co-founder, above, who has been living in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012.
Canadian Mining Journal
December 31, 1999
Over the past decade, Ecuador has not been the most hospitable country for Canadian mining companies. High taxes ... in Ecuador. The statement was endorsed by over 20 Ecuadorian organizations claiming that mining brings various human rights violations and environmental destruction to the country.
Outlook India
November 19, 2017
Air Pollution Crisis Provides India And Pakistan A Golden Chance To 'Clear ... the leadership of India and Pakistan to work together for environmental cooperation. ... Countries collaborate to protect their critical environment and these ... park in the disputed Cordillera del Condor between Peru and Ecuador.
Climate Action Programme
November 16, 2017
On 13 November 2017, during the 1st day of SIF, UN Environment and ... Azuay (Ecuador), Lombardy (Italy) and Valle de Aburra (Colombia). ... By joining the campaign, these regions have committed to take action to mitigate air pollution ... This shows that positive environmental action is not a burden, but ...
Climate Action Programme
November 14, 2017
The debate was linked to UN Environment's BreathLife campaign, which calls on cities to protect the planet and the health of its citizens from the effects of air pollution. ... This shows that positive environmental action is not a burden, but ... Azuay (Ecuador), Lombardy (Italy) and Valle de Aburra (Colombia).
Lexology
November 8, 2017
... are residents of Ecuador and seek to enforce an Ecuadorian judgment ... billion against Chevron Corporation for environmental damage.
Khmer Times
November 6, 2017
... be working together to promote environmental awareness and reduce pollution,” Mr Sophalleth said. The Ecuadorian winner of Miss Global 2016, 25-year-old Angela ... contestants want to help protect the environment around the word, ... come to carry out social and environmental missions in Cambodia.
Yale News
November 6, 2017
Juhasz's talk, “Covering Catastrophe: Environmental Destruction and ... the rainforests of the Ecuadorean Amazon, the deserts of Afghanistan, ...
Intercontinental Cry
November 6, 2017
Cofan indigenous Women from Ecuador at the foot of the water body that shows the ecological destruction by the oil company. ... billion for decades-long damage caused to their ancestral lands and trauma caused to the inhabitants. ... severe harm to indigenous groups as a result of environmental pollution.
Energy Business Review
November 3, 2017
The latest judgment comes as a setback to Ecuadorean citizens who were ... on charges of being responsible for an oil pollution incident in Ecuador. ... oil company was accused of causing environmental pollution due to their ...
teleSUR English
October 31, 2017
Cofan indigenous Women from Ecuador at the foot of the water body ... for decades-long damage caused to the ancestral lands and trauma caused to the inhabitants. ... Patricio Salazar, the lead Ecuadorian lawyer for the plaintiffs, said. ... harm to indigenous groups as a result of environmental pollution.".
Lexology
October 16, 2017
The number of investment disputes with an environmental ... comply with an environmental obligation where such failure has caused damage to a ... where Ecuador advanced a counterclaim alleging breaches of Ecuadorian ...
BNN
October 11, 2017
Protesters carry a Ecuadorian flag to protest against Chevron and the oil ... award they won in Ecuador in 2013 over environmental devastation and the ... extensive environmental pollution that seriously disrupted their lives.
The Smart Set
December 31, 1999
Once on the water, we could see the rainforest pushing close to the river. The town of Coca, a depot on Ecuador's Rio Napo, was already ...
Mongabay.com
December 31, 1999
Under Correa, China became Ecuador's primary creditor and Chinese ... Correa praised the codification of indigenous and environmental values into .... a major Ecuadoran tourist attraction on the Coca River downstream from the ... CELEC and the Ecuadorian Environment Ministry told Mongabay that all ...
NACLA
December 31, 1999
Toxic waste pools in the Ecuadorian Amazon. ... the Goldman Environmental Prize for his work representing the Ecuadorean ... It is in reference to the double-victimization of the affected people: first, by the destruction of their land .... the full amount necessary for comprehensive remediation of the damage.
Law360
December 31, 1999
A court in Lago Agrio, Ecuador, in 2011 found Chevron liable for ... Ecuadorean residents who claim they were hurt by environmental pollution ...
KTOO
September 28, 2017
... sink at the Trump Grill was equal to that found in samples from Quito, Ecuador. ... Mason, who chairs the department of geology and environmental science at the State ... “Since this is the first global tap water survey of plastic pollution to have been ... But plastic persists in the environment for centuries.
CBC.ca
September 28, 2017
Leaders travelled to Quito, Ecuador to visit with Indigenous tribes in the Amazon whose lands and waterways have been severely affected by pollution. ... the damage award on behalf of the Ecuadorian Indigenous people.
Upside Down World
September 27, 2017
Indigenous environmental activists from Yasuni, Ecuador, relay a message ... Front and the oil workers' union (Federation of Ecuadorian Petroleum Workers, .... might emphasize that it not only causes environmental destruction but has ... to indigenous collective rights and an uncontaminated environment.
teleSUR English
September 26, 2017
Ecuador will open a new lawsuit in Canada against the ... is visiting the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador to document environmental damage ... "After we filed a lawsuit in 1993, they (Texaco) made an agreement with the Ecuadorian government to ... Ecuadorean activist of the Amazonia Defense Front, DonaldÃÂ ...
Colorado Springs Independent
September 22, 2017
In 2008, the country of Ecuador adopted the world's first national ... assisted U.S. municipalities and the Ecuadorian government to codify legally ... of stopping the widescale environmental destruction that we're experiencing. ... powers that routinely overwhelm the efforts of people to protect the environment.
Nasdaq
September 15, 2017
Ecuador trade minister says country seeking dialogue with IMF, Chevron ... Sept 15 (Reuters) - Ecuador is hoping to mend fences with the International ... liable for environmental and social harms in Ecuador'sAmazon region. ... to collect on an $8.65 billion pollution judgment issued by a court in Ecuador.
ABC News
September 14, 2017
In a story Sept. 13 about efforts to restore an extinct tortoise species in the Galapagos Islands, The Associated Press misidentified the name ofÃÂ ...
ABC News
September 13, 2017
Scientists in Ecuador's Galapagos islands are hoping to restore a tortoise ... and the damage humans can cause a species," said Ecuadorean Minister ... world that it is possible to reverse negative effects on the environment.
teleSUR English
September 13, 2017
Indigenous activists demand that Chevron pay Ecuador for the environmental damage it has caused throughout the years. | Photo: ... Chevron is trying to bankrupt the lawyer that defended Ecuador's ... In 2011, Chevron was found guilty of dumping waste into the land and water of the Ecuadorean Amazon,ÃÂ ...
Sustainable Brands
September 12, 2017
To date, similar studies have largely focused on plastic pollution in the ... toxic chemicals from the marine environment and then release themÃÂ ...
Mongabay.com
August 30, 2017
In Ecuador's central Cotopaxi province, massive industrial eucalyptus ... that there are additional costs to the farmers and the environment. ... Nathalia Bonilla, a forests and plantations researcher for Ecuadorian environmentalÃÂ ...
HuffPost
August 29, 2017
... of information about Texaco's environmental disaster in Ecuador and warned ... experts – demonstrated the damage caused by Texaco's deliberate dumping ... abusive past and respect the rule of law and the environment.
Augusta Free Press
August 4, 2017
Linsey Marr, a professor of civil and environmental engineering in the ... studies air pollution and will continue to research links between airÃÂ ...
