A Lawsuit in Ecuador

This former Texaco station now has a different owner.
Ivan Kashinsky / Aurora

Multinational
Chevron has argued that the true responsibility for the damage to the Ecuadorian Amazon lays with Petroecuador, a state-owned oil company, which, Chevron says, "exercised significant control over the operations" in the region.

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