Bob McCarty Writes

Almost one year ago, I published an exclusive post about how I had scooped The New York Times by 100 days with news about a Colorado company’s involvement in a mega-lawsuit related to Chevron Oil Company’s operations in Ecuador.  Though one of more than 50 posts I’ve written and published about the legal battle since [...]

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President Harry Truman once wished for a “one-handed economist,” because he tired of hearing advisors giving him answers that were framed as “on the one hand, this” and “on the other hand, that.”  We are seeing something like that right now in a White House fretting over the prospect of rising energy and food prices [...]

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By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger On April 11, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) had a telephone conversation with National Labor Relations Board acting general counsel Lafe Solomon, a recent Barack Obama appointee.  According to a Solomon file note obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the watchdog group, Judicial Watch, Graham warned of [...]

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On Friday, according to this post, Chevron submitted to the office of the New York State Comptroller a request under New York’s Freedom of Information Law for documents regarding connections between the Comptroller’s office and plaintiffs’ representatives in the long-running $113 billion shakedown lawsuit involving the oil giant in Ecuador. Chevron is seeking documents under FOIL, [...]

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Today, I was reminded of those awful days of gas lines and fuel shortages in the 1970s by a FuelFix.com article, Obama Administration Repeating Energy Mistakes of 1976, that includes the following paragraphs: All of this year’s stimulus-gone-sour stories represent another case of politicians refusing to learn from the past and, therefore, dooming us to [...]

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Though a hearing to determine the enforceability of a $96 million ruling in favor of Chevron will take place in New York City in November, I fully expect that my days of reporting on this story of bribery, corruption and kangaroo courting will come to an end soon.  That in mind, it seems appropriate to [...]

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After publishing more than three-dozen posts since April 22, 2009, about the $113 billion environmental lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador, I can finally report good news for truth, justice and the American way:  An international arbitration tribunal has awarded Chevron Corporation and Texaco Petroleum Company $96 million in a claim against Ecuador related to past [...]

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