RTAmerica | 17 February 2011 | 25 likes, 3 dislikes Chevron Petroleum Corporation is attempting to get out of an $8 billion judgment rendered by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its sub company Texaco. ThinkProgress Climate Editor Brad Johnson says Chevron can certainly absorb the cost to clean up the Ecuadorian rainforest just as BP did to clean up the Gulf of Mexico.