Chevron has a long history of ravaging natural environments, violating human rights, ignoring the longstanding decisions of Indigenous communities, destroying traditional livelihoods, and converting its dollars into unjust political influence in the United States and around the world.
Chevron’s egregious corporate behavior —in locations as diverse as California, Burma, Colombia, Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, the Philippines and the U.S. Gulf Coast—has spanned decades and carries on today.
Chevron’s refusal to comply with the landmark verdict finding it guilty of massive environmental pollution in the Ecuadorean Amazon is perhaps the starkest piece of evidence proving that the company’s “We Agree” ad campaign is pure greenwash.
After nearly 18 years of struggle, the Indigenous people and campesinos suing Chevron for its oil contamination in their rainforest home achieved a critical milestone when an Ecuadorean court ordered the company to pay over $18 billion for cleanup, clean water systems, health care for affected community members, and reconstruction efforts. Chevron chose to have the case tried in Ecuador instead of the US, and now refuses to honor the verdict — imperiling the lives and livelihoods of thousands of rainforest people as well as the health of a vital rainforest ecosystem.
Learn more about the contamination in Ecuador and the historic trial at ChevronToxico.com and ChangeChevron.org.
For more information on the environmental and human rights abuses Chevron has committed around the globe and the growing movement to hold Chevron accountable, check out “The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report.”
For more information on our spoof of Chevron's "We Agree" campaign and how we pulled it off, see the page "We Punked Chevron."