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US Court Rules in Favor of Chevron in Ecuador Pollution Case
2016-08-09 07:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telesur TV: A U.S. federal appeals court ruled Monday in favor of the oil giant Chevron in a case that dates back more than 20 years, blocking one of Ecuador's Indigenous community from collecting a judgement of nearly US$8.6 billion for environmental damage to the Amazon rain forest. The decision from the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan dismissed claims by the lawyer Steven Donziger on behalf of Ecuador's Lago Agrio region, that is most impacted by the dirty legacy of Chevron's Amazon drilling....
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