by Luke Goldstein | Jan 6, 2026 | ConocoPhillips, Fossil Fuels, Halliburton, Iraq War, News, Nicolás Maduro, Oil and Gas Industry, Regime Change, Venezuela
Just weeks before the American military operation in Venezuela to capture President Nicolás Maduro, the U.S. energy giant Halliburton filed an unusual lawsuit in international court claiming the Venezuelan government owed them damages for U.S. sanctions against the country. A separate case against Venezuela is also being pursued by another fossil fuel giant whose board includes an oil magnate…
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by Katie Surma | Dec 12, 2025 | Amazon Rainforest, Chevron, Contamination, Ecuador, Fossil Fuels, Indigenous Peoples, Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Investor-State Dispute Settlement System, Investor-State Dispute Settlements, ISDS, News, Oil and Gas Drilling, Oil and Gas Industry, oil spills, Pollution, Texaco
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Over a quarter century in the Ecuadorian Amazon, oil giant Texaco (now Chevron) perpetrated an ecological disaster: It dumped 3.2 million gallons of toxic waste, spilled 17 million gallons of crude oil and flared…
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