Chevron’s Star Witness Admits to Lying in the Amazon Pollution Case

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  By Eva Hershaw   In March of last year, California-based oil giant Chevron hailed a sweeping victory in a two-decade long legal battle in the Ecuadorean Amazon. A New York federal judge, Lewis Kaplan, ruled that a $9.5 billion Lago●●●

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TTIP leak exposes EU’s failure to protect the environment

Friends of the Earth Europe

        A leaked European Union document has revealed that the EU is willing to trade away essential environmental safeguards during the ongoing EU-US trade talks.   The leaked document, which provides an overview of the EU’s opening position on●●●

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TTIP: EU negotiators appear to break environmental pledge in leaked draft

The Guardian

  As Miami talks wind up, environmental safeguards are ‘virtually non-existent’ in trade deal negotiating text for sustainable development, lawyers say     The EU appears to have broken a promise to reinforce environmental protections in a leaked draft negotiating●●●

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