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As a verdict nears in the long-running environmental lawsuit against Chevron Corp. in Ecuador, both sides are ratcheting up the pressure, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The man who says oil field contamination in Ecuador's rain forest killed two of his children will try to meet with Chevron's new chief executive officer, John Watson, the newspaper says. Together with some of his American supporters, Emergildo Criollo will go first to Watson's home in Lafayette, then to the company's headquarters in San Ramon, carrying with him petitions signed by 325,000 people asking Chevron to settle the suit. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/01/BULA1C97V3.DTL#ixzz0h2ArSRBj
This litigation is a long-running sad story, and it is unclear when or if it will end.

Mar 2 · 10:48:00 AM · Source: San Francisco Chronicle
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by Jeffrey Epstein