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The Lawyer Who Beat Chevron Has Been Found Guilty of Criminal Contempt
Steven Donziger, the lawyer who won a multibillion-dollar case against Chevron over pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon and then faced unrelenting legal attacks from the oil company, has been found guilty of criminal contempt. The attorney, who has been on house arrest for two years, now faces up to six months in jail. It’s the…
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Russia’s New Arctic Oil Development Is a Nightmare
Russia’s national oil company has begun construction on a massive project in the Arctic that officials say will produce 22.7 million tonnes of oil each year by 2024. The new operation is possible only because the Arctic is now traversable in places and at times it previously wasn’t, due to sea ice levels plummeting as…