{"id":23080,"date":"2020-06-02T00:13:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T00:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=04d2c715b8cdd4cc3c8a5bea39fa7ee1"},"modified":"2020-06-02T00:13:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T00:13:52","slug":"steven-donziger-challenged-a-corporate-polluter-and-won-now-they-are-trying-to-ruin-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/06\/02\/steven-donziger-challenged-a-corporate-polluter-and-won-now-they-are-trying-to-ruin-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Donziger Challenged A Corporate Polluter And Won, Now They Are Trying To Ruin Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texaco was the first oil company to drill in the Amazon. To maximize profits, and because they thought they could get away with it, they did not take any steps to protect local communities or the environment from their toxic waste. For a long time, they did get away with it. Then a group of lawyers and organizations worked with locals to sue Chevron, which bought Texaco, and won a $9.5 billion judgment. Chevron refuses to pay and instead has gone after the lawyer, Steven Donziger, in unprecedented ways with a vengeance. We speak with Donziger and Paul Paz y Mi\u00f1o of Amazon Watch. For more information, visit PopularResistance.org.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/clearingthefogradioshow.libsyn.com\/steven-donziger-challenged-a-corporate-polluter-and-won-now-they-are-trying-to-ruin-him\">Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texaco was the first oil company to drill in the Amazon. To maximize profits, and because they thought they could get away with it, they did not take any steps to protect local communities or the environment from their toxic waste. For a long time, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23081,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23080\/revisions\/23081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}