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Judith Kimerling

Latest Twist in Chevron’s Amazon Pollution Saga: Ecuador Ordered to Pay the Oil Company $220 Million

Indigenous and other Ecuadorians have lived with millions of gallons of toxic pollution from Texaco’s operations for decades. Now, those victims’ tax dollars will go to Chevron, which acquired Texaco in 2001.

By Katie Surma

Donald Moncayo, president of the Union of Peoples Affected by Chevron-Texaco, walks toward a gas flare in the Ecuadorian Amazon region. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News
Conta, a member of the Tagaeri and Baihuaeri Waorani Indigenous groups, appears (via pre recorded video) before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on August 23, 2022 for a hearing in the first ever court case involving the rights of uncontacted Indigenous peoples. Conta lived the first six or seven years of her life in voluntary isolation with her Tageri family. Credit: Courtesy of the Inter American Court of Human Rights

Spanning Two Worlds, Judith Kimerling Explores Ecuador’s Rainforest and the Rule of Law That Might Save Those Who Live There

By Katie Surma

Judith Kimerling kneeling on pipelines above a drilling waste pit in the Ecuadorian Amazon in July 1990. Credit: Courtesy of Judith Kimerling

Judith Kimerling’s 1991 ‘Amazon Crude’ Exposed the Devastation of Oil Exploration in Ecuador. If Only She Could Make it Stop

By Katie Surma

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