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World in Progress: Legal battle Chevron vs Ecuador

Jessica Zeller
September 5, 2018

For more than 25 years, people from the Ecuadorian Amazon have been fighting for compensation after oil extraction contaminated the environment and caused severe health problems. Though an Ecuadorian court orderd Chevron to pay $9.5 billion in compensation, toxic soil and water continue to impact people's lives

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(Report: Jessica Zeller/ Presenter: Natalie Muller) 

Hand in glove holds black toxic soil from an oil waste that was not cleaned up properly in the Ecuadorian Amazon near Lago Agrio.
Image: Getty Images/AFP/R. Buendia