# Steven Donziger
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steven donziger is an American attorney known for his legal battles with Chevron, particularly the Lago Agrio oil field case which led the company to withdraw its operations from Ecuador. Donziger is under house arrest awaiting trial on charges of contempt of court in relation to the case, a move condemned by twenty-nine Nobel laureates as "judicial harassment" by Chevron.
== Early life and education ==
Donziger's mother raised him in Jacksonville, Florida, where she took him to picket in support of Cesar Chavez's lettuce boycott.
Corruption Feeds Violence from Washington to the West Bank
In the first part of today’s two-part show, host Esty Dinur speaks with Branko Marcetic who writes about the Epstein case and Project 2029 for Jacobin. He calls the current status of the Epstein files, “a political crisis of the president’s own making.”
Marcetic updates listeners about the sta…
Oiling the Courts: How the Fossil Fuels Industry Attacks Activists and Advocates and How to Fight Back Against their Sticks and SLAPPS
Chevron’s Carious Crusade Against Steven Donziger, SLAPP Suits and the Defense of Climate Necessity
Discussion with Lauren Regan on corporate SLAPP suits and in particular the oil and gas industry’s utilization of RICO against grassroots environmental activists. We also discuss the miscarriages of …
Paul Paz y Miño and Steven Donziger from Rainforests to Courtrooms
Two leading voices in the fight for environmental and human rights justice are Steven Donziger and Paul Paz y Miño. Steven Donziger is an attorney and activist known for his decades-long legal battle against Chevron on behalf of Indigenous peoples and rural communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon. His…
Scorched Earth
Attorney Steven Donziger spent his whole career on one case: suing an oil company for polluting villages in the Amazon rainforest. When he obtained a $9 billion judgment against Chevron, it was considered a win for the environment, for corporate accountability, and for Donziger himself. But Chevron…
007 – Steven Donziger on Chevron, Corporate Retaliation, and Climate Justice
My guest today is Steven Donziger, a human rights and environmental lawyer best known for leading a historic legal case against Chevron on behalf of Indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
We discuss Chevron’s environmental crimes, the weaponization of the legal system, the implications of…
Chevron, Corporate Power, and the $10 Billion Judgment
In this powerful and deeply personal conversation, environmental justice attorney Steven Donziger recounts the decades-long legal battle against Chevron over massive oil contamination in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest.
What began as a class action lawsuit on behalf of Indigenous communities evolved in…
The People vs. Big Oil, Part 1: 'Amazon Chernobyl'
After Texaco (now Chevron) discovered oil in Ecuador, they left behind an ecological and public health disaster so severe that experts have dubbed it the "Amazon Chernobyl.” The local population then sued the company sparking an epic courtroom drama spanning multiple decades and costing billions of…
The People vs. Big Oil, Part 2: Chevron Strikes Back
In 2011, the people of Ecuador shocked the world by winning a multibillion judgment against Chevron for failing to clean up its oil operations in the Amazon. But back in the U.S., Chevron responded by suing their most prominent legal adversary, Steven Donziger. And as the oil giant challenged the E…
Demanding Accountability From Chevron with Steven Donziger and the Struggle of Frontline Community Journalists with Matilda Bliss and Veronica Coit
On this week’s Project Censored Show, Eleanor Goldfield recently spoke attorney Steven Donziger – the man caught in the crosshairs of one of the largest corporations in the world, Chevron – to discuss updates in his ongoing struggle to demand accountability for the people of the Amazon in Ecuador, …
Steven Donziger : How An Oil Giant Turned A Lawsuit Into A Weapon
Steven Donziger joins the Unfettered Speech Podcast to lay out a modern environmental justice and corporate accountability saga that begins in the Ecuadorian Amazon and ends in a New York courtroom. He describes representing roughly 30,000 Indigenous and farmer villagers who say Chevron, after acqu…
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