Chevron - Revision history

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	Rice headed Chevron's committee on public policy until she resigned on January 15, 2001, to become National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush. Chevron honored Rice by naming an oil tanker Condoleezza Rice after her, but controversy led to its being renamed Altair Voyager.<ref>https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Critics-Knock-Naming-Oil-Tanker-Condoleezza-2935114.php</ref><ref>https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Chevron-redubs-ship-named-for-Bush-aide-2922481.php</ref>		Rice headed Chevron's committee on public policy until she resigned on January 15, 2001, to become National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush. Chevron honored Rice by naming an oil tanker Condoleezza Rice after her, but controversy led to its being renamed Altair Voyager.<ref>https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Critics-Knock-Naming-Oil-Tanker-Condoleezza-2935114.php</ref><ref>https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Chevron-redubs-ship-named-for-Bush-aide-2922481.php</ref>

			== Think Tanks ==

			[[Atlantic Council]] \| [[Hoover Institute]]

	== Litigation ==		== Litigation ==

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= Climate Denial

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	Aided by corporate media censorship in a scandal beset with conflicts of interest, Chevron and its law firm [[Gibson Dunn]] forced Donziger into house arrest for "contempt of court" after he refused the order of a Judge (and Chevron shareholder) to turn his data over to Chevron.<ref>https://amazonwatch.org/news/2014/1029-judge-kaplan-held-investments-in-chevron-when-he-ruled-for-company</ref>		Aided by corporate media censorship in a scandal beset with conflicts of interest, Chevron and its law firm [[Gibson Dunn]] forced Donziger into house arrest for "contempt of court" after he refused the order of a Judge (and Chevron shareholder) to turn his data over to Chevron.<ref>https://amazonwatch.org/news/2014/1029-judge-kaplan-held-investments-in-chevron-when-he-ruled-for-company</ref>

	=== Climate Denial ==		== Climate Denial ==

	The state of New Jersey filed a lawsuit October, 2022 against [[ExxonMobil]], [[Shell Oil]] Company, Chevron, [[British Petroleum]] (BP), [[ConocoPhillips]], and the [[American Petroleum Institute]], the oil industry's most powerful lobbying group in which the five oil companies were members.<ref>https://www.desmog.com/2022/10/18/new-jersey-sues-shell-exxon-api-oil-public-deception-climate/</ref>		The state of New Jersey filed a lawsuit October, 2022 against [[ExxonMobil]], [[Shell Oil]] Company, Chevron, [[British Petroleum]] (BP), [[ConocoPhillips]], and the [[American Petroleum Institute]], the oil industry's most powerful lobbying group in which the five oil companies were members.<ref>https://www.desmog.com/2022/10/18/new-jersey-sues-shell-exxon-api-oil-public-deception-climate/</ref>
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	The oil companies “concealed and misrepresented the dangers of fossil fuels; disseminated false and misleading information about the existence, causes, and effects of climate change; and aggressively promoted the ever-increasing use of their products at ever-greater volumes,” the complaint states.		The oil companies “concealed and misrepresented the dangers of fossil fuels; disseminated false and misleading information about the existence, causes, and effects of climate change; and aggressively promoted the ever-increasing use of their products at ever-greater volumes,” the complaint states.


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Kenneth T. Derr

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	=== Kenneth T. Derr ===		=== Kenneth T. Derr ===

	Kenneth T. Derr joined the Chevron Corporation in 1960 and served a number of executive positions, including President, until 1999. Derr also served until 2008 as the Chief Executive Officer of Calpine Corp, the largest natural gas fueled power producer in North America (calpine.com), and is or has been a director of AT&T Corp., Citigroup Inc., Citigroup Finance Canada Inc. and CitiCorp (Bloomberg Business). Derr served as Director of Halliburton Company, another fracking profiteer, from 2001 to May, 2009. <ref>https://exposebohemiangrove.org/category/koch-brothers/</ref>		Kenneth T. Derr joined the Chevron Corporation in 1960 and served a number of executive positions, including President, until 1999. Derr also served until 2008 as the Chief Executive Officer of Calpine Corp, the largest natural gas fueled power producer in North America (calpine.com), and is or has been a director of AT&T Corp., Citigroup Inc., Citigroup Finance Canada Inc. and CitiCorp (Bloomberg Business). Derr served as Director of [[Halliburton]] Company, another [[fracking]] profiteer, from 2001 to May, 2009. <ref>https://exposebohemiangrove.org/category/koch-brothers/</ref>

	=== David O'Reilly ===		=== David O'Reilly ===

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	== Litigation ==		== Litigation ==

	The state of New Jersey filed a lawsuit October, 2022 against [[ExxonMobil]], [[Shell Oil]] Company, Chevron, BP, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry's most powerful lobbying group in which the five oil companies were members.<ref>https://www.desmog.com/2022/10/18/new-jersey-sues-shell-exxon-api-oil-public-deception-climate/</ref>		== Litigation ==

			=== Ecuador Pollution ===

			In 1993, civil rights lawyer Steven Donziger won a landmark lawsuit against oil giant Chevron in Ecuador over the company’s role in the pollution of the [[Amazon Rainforest]] and poisoning of Indigenous people, land, and water. <ref>https://branchoutnow.org/mainstream-media-blackout-on-chevrons-prosecution-of-steven-donziger-explained/</ref><ref>https://texacotoxico.net/en/</ref>

			Aided by corporate media censorship in a scandal beset with conflicts of interest, Chevron and its law firm [[Gibson Dunn]] forced Donziger into house arrest for "contempt of court" after he refused the order of a Judge (and Chevron shareholder) to turn his data over to Chevron.<ref>https://amazonwatch.org/news/2014/1029-judge-kaplan-held-investments-in-chevron-when-he-ruled-for-company</ref>

			=== Climate Denial ==

			The state of New Jersey filed a lawsuit October, 2022 against [[ExxonMobil]], [[Shell Oil]] Company, Chevron, [[British Petroleum]] (BP), [[ConocoPhillips]], and the [[American Petroleum Institute]], the oil industry's most powerful lobbying group in which the five oil companies were members.<ref>https://www.desmog.com/2022/10/18/new-jersey-sues-shell-exxon-api-oil-public-deception-climate/</ref>

	The lawsuit, filed in the New Jersey Superior Court, states that the companies knew about climate change for decades and actively sought to conceal that information from the public. Instead, they funded PR campaigns aimed at confusing and misleading the public. <ref>https://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases22/2022-1018_NJ-Climate-Complaint-FILED.pdf</ref>		The lawsuit, filed in the New Jersey Superior Court, states that the companies knew about climate change for decades and actively sought to conceal that information from the public. Instead, they funded PR campaigns aimed at confusing and misleading the public. <ref>https://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases22/2022-1018_NJ-Climate-Complaint-FILED.pdf</ref>
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	The oil companies “concealed and misrepresented the dangers of fossil fuels; disseminated false and misleading information about the existence, causes, and effects of climate change; and aggressively promoted the ever-increasing use of their products at ever-greater volumes,” the complaint states.		The oil companies “concealed and misrepresented the dangers of fossil fuels; disseminated false and misleading information about the existence, causes, and effects of climate change; and aggressively promoted the ever-increasing use of their products at ever-greater volumes,” the complaint states.

	= Sources=
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	Rice headed Chevron's committee on public policy until she resigned on January 15, 2001, to become National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush. Chevron honored Rice by naming an oil tanker Condoleezza Rice after her, but controversy led to its being renamed Altair Voyager.<ref>https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Critics-Knock-Naming-Oil-Tanker-Condoleezza-2935114.php</ref><ref>https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Chevron-redubs-ship-named-for-Bush-aide-2922481.php</ref>		Rice headed Chevron's committee on public policy until she resigned on January 15, 2001, to become National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush. Chevron honored Rice by naming an oil tanker Condoleezza Rice after her, but controversy led to its being renamed Altair Voyager.<ref>https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Critics-Knock-Naming-Oil-Tanker-Condoleezza-2935114.php</ref><ref>https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Chevron-redubs-ship-named-for-Bush-aide-2922481.php</ref>

			== Litigation ==

			The state of New Jersey filed a lawsuit October, 2022 against [[ExxonMobil]], [[Shell Oil]] Company, Chevron, BP, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry's most powerful lobbying group in which the five oil companies were members.<ref>https://www.desmog.com/2022/10/18/new-jersey-sues-shell-exxon-api-oil-public-deception-climate/</ref>

			The lawsuit, filed in the New Jersey Superior Court, states that the companies knew about climate change for decades and actively sought to conceal that information from the public. Instead, they funded PR campaigns aimed at confusing and misleading the public. <ref>https://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases22/2022-1018_NJ-Climate-Complaint-FILED.pdf</ref>

			The oil companies “concealed and misrepresented the dangers of fossil fuels; disseminated false and misleading information about the existence, causes, and effects of climate change; and aggressively promoted the ever-increasing use of their products at ever-greater volumes,” the complaint states.

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	Rice headed Chevron's committee on public policy until she resigned on January 15, 2001, to become National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush. Chevron honored Rice by naming an oil tanker Condoleezza Rice after her, but controversy led to its being renamed Altair Voyager.<ref>https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Critics-Knock-Naming-Oil-Tanker-Condoleezza-2935114.php</ref><ref>https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Chevron-redubs-ship-named-for-Bush-aide-2922481.php</ref>		Rice headed Chevron's committee on public policy until she resigned on January 15, 2001, to become National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush. Chevron honored Rice by naming an oil tanker Condoleezza Rice after her, but controversy led to its being renamed Altair Voyager.<ref>https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Critics-Knock-Naming-Oil-Tanker-Condoleezza-2935114.php</ref><ref>https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Chevron-redubs-ship-named-for-Bush-aide-2922481.php</ref>

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	=== Myanmar ===		=== Myanmar ===

	According to a Spokesperson for Justice For Myanmar Yadanar Maung, Chevron has made enormous profits in Myanmar while simultaneously bolstering brutal military regimes. Oil profits from joint projects have provided a major source of revenue for the military junta. <ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/chevron-and-total-withdraw-from-myanmar-gas-project</ref>		According to a Spokesperson for Justice For Myanmar Yadanar Maung, Chevron has made enormous profits in Myanmar while simultaneously bolstering brutal military regimes.

			Oil profits from joint projects have provided a major source of revenue for the military junta. <ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/chevron-and-total-withdraw-from-myanmar-gas-project</ref> According to Human Rights Watch, natural gas projects in Myanmar generate more than $1bn in foreign revenue for the junta each year, its single largest source of foreign currency revenue.<ref>https://eiti.org/files/documents/meiti_reconciliation_report_2017-2018_final_signed_31st_march_2020.pdf</ref>

	2007: In landmark lawsuits, Burmese villagers sued the US oil and gas company UNOCAL (now Chevron) and France’s [[TotalEnergies]] for complicity in gross human rights abuses committed by the Burmese military.<ref>https://www.hrw.org/news/2007/03/24/burma-natural-gas-project-threatens-human-rights</ref>		2007: In landmark lawsuits, Burmese villagers sued the US oil and gas company UNOCAL (now Chevron) and France’s [[TotalEnergies]] for complicity in gross human rights abuses committed by the Burmese military.<ref>https://www.hrw.org/news/2007/03/24/burma-natural-gas-project-threatens-human-rights</ref>

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	=== Myanmar ===		=== Myanmar ===

	2007: In landmark lawsuits, Burmese villagers sued the US oil and gas company UNOCAL (now Chevron) and France’s ~~Total~~ for complicity in gross human rights abuses committed by the Burmese military.<ref>https://www.hrw.org/news/2007/03/24/burma-natural-gas-project-threatens-human-rights</ref>		According to a Spokesperson for Justice For Myanmar Yadanar Maung, Chevron has made enormous profits in Myanmar while simultaneously bolstering brutal military regimes. Oil profits from joint projects have provided a major source of revenue for the military junta. <ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/chevron-and-total-withdraw-from-myanmar-gas-project</ref>

			2007: In landmark lawsuits, Burmese villagers sued the US oil and gas company UNOCAL (now Chevron) and France’s [[TotalEnergies]] for complicity in gross human rights abuses committed by the Burmese military.<ref>https://www.hrw.org/news/2007/03/24/burma-natural-gas-project-threatens-human-rights</ref>

			2022: The energy firms Chevron and TotalEnergies have announced they will withdraw from Myanmar, a breakthrough for activists. <ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/chevron-and-total-withdraw-from-myanmar-gas-project</ref>

	== Notable Directors ==		== Notable Directors ==

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			== Regions ==

			=== Myanmar ===

			2007: In landmark lawsuits, Burmese villagers sued the US oil and gas company UNOCAL (now Chevron) and France’s Total for complicity in gross human rights abuses committed by the Burmese military.<ref>https://www.hrw.org/news/2007/03/24/burma-natural-gas-project-threatens-human-rights</ref>

	== Notable Directors ==		== Notable Directors ==

			=== Samuel Armacost ===

			Armacost has held lead positions for Chevron Corporation, BankAmerica Corporation Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, and Weiss, Peck & Greer L.L.C.(corporate buy-outs).<ref>https://exposebohemiangrove.org/category/koch-brothers/</ref>

			=== Kenneth T. Derr ===

			Kenneth T. Derr joined the Chevron Corporation in 1960 and served a number of executive positions, including President, until 1999. Derr also served until 2008 as the Chief Executive Officer of Calpine Corp, the largest natural gas fueled power producer in North America (calpine.com), and is or has been a director of AT&T Corp., Citigroup Inc., Citigroup Finance Canada Inc. and CitiCorp (Bloomberg Business). Derr served as Director of Halliburton Company, another fracking profiteer, from 2001 to May, 2009. <ref>https://exposebohemiangrove.org/category/koch-brothers/</ref>

			=== David O'Reilly ===

			Succeeding Derr in 2000 as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Chevron, then Chevron/Texaco after their 2001 merger was David O´Reilly. <ref>https://exposebohemiangrove.org/category/koch-brothers/</ref>

	=== George Shultz ===		=== George Shultz ===

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== Notable Directors ==

=== George Shultz ===

=== Condoleezza Rice ===

In 1992, George Shultz recommended Rice for a spot on the Chevron board. Chevron was pursuing a $10 billion development project in Kazakhstan and, as a Soviet specialist, Rice knew the president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. She traveled to Kazakhstan on Chevron's behalf and, in honor of her work, in 1993, Chevron named a 129,000-ton supertanker SS Condoleezza Rice.<ref>Baker, Russell (April 3, 2008), BOOK: Condi and the Boys</ref>

Rice headed Chevron's committee on public policy until she resigned on January 15, 2001, to become National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush. Chevron honored Rice by naming an oil tanker Condoleezza Rice after her, but controversy led to its being renamed Altair Voyager.<ref>https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Critics-Knock-Naming-Oil-Tanker-Condoleezza-2935114.php</ref><ref>https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Chevron-redubs-ship-named-for-Bush-aide-2922481.php</ref>