No Fly Zone Speaker: The Epic Environmental Litigation of Chevron V. Ecuador: Lessons From The Frontlines

Centre for the Law and the Environment Assistant

Centre for the Law and the Environment Assistant

Oct 1, 2020

On October 1, 2020, Steven Donziger joined the CLE for the “No Fly Zone” Speaker Series to discuss the 'ChevronToxico' saga and industry accountability.

Steven Donziger is an American attorney who represented the Ecuadorean plaintiffs who won a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron for deliberate environmental contamination of the Amazon. Donziger later faced a retaliatory racketeering lawsuit brought by Chevron and has been under house arrest in New York for 14 months on contempt of court charges for refusing to turn over his computers and phone to Chevron's lawyers.

If you missed this event or would like to rewatch it, you can access a recording of the webinar by clicking the link below.

View the 'Lessons From the Frontlines' webinar recording 

 

More about the speaker

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STEVEN DONZIGER is a renowned advocate, writer, and public speaker at Donziger Law, www.donzigerlaw.com, with a focus on addressing human rights abuses and corporate malfeasance. He is part of the team working with Indigenous and farmer communities in an area of the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest suffering from high cancer rates and other health ailments related to the massive oil pollution caused by Texaco, now owned by Chevron. In 2011, the affected communities won a historic $9.5 billon judgment against Chevron for the environmental cleanup of what experts consider to be one of the worst oil-related catastrophes in the world. Known for his “Herculean tenacity” (Business Week), Steven has represented the affected communities since first visiting the region in 1993.

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