Steven Donziger, the lawyer representing affected indigenous communities in Ecuador, calls this “the probably the most outrageous act of industrial pollution in history related to oil.” Story Transcript D. Lascaris: This is Dimitri Lascaris for The Real News. Earlier this week, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by Ecuadorean villagers seeking […]
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Steven Donziger is a human rights attorney based in New York who has been representing indigenous and farmer communities in Ecuador's rainforest for more than two decades in an epic environmental case against Chevron. Donziger's clients won a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron in Ecuador's courts in 2013 and are trying to collect against the company's assets in Canada and Brazil. Chevron has threatened the villagers with a "lifetime of litigation" and vowed never to pay the judgment.