Chevron won’t have to pay for its own version of Chernobyl

Grist
By Katie HerzogAug 8, 2016, 6:53 pm262 pts
In 1993, Ecuadorians filed suit against American fossil fuel giant Chevron, arguing that the company was responsible for contaminating that land and sickening people through decades of drilling in the Lago Agrio oil fields. The suit dragged on for over two decades, and Monday, a federal U.S. court finally…

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