American human rights attorney Steven Donziger, who spent decades battling Chevron as part of a multibillion-dollar oil pollution case in Ecuador, is seeking a pardon from the Biden administration.

Donziger sued Chevron on behalf of farmers and Indigenous peoples who suffered the adverse health effects of oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon. “I visited Ecuador. I saw what Chevron did.

The judgment was upheld by Ecuador’s top court, which ordered Chevron to pay $9.5 billion. Chevron never paid a dime, and instead filed a racketeering suit against Donziger in the United States ...

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