How The Environmental Lawyer Who Won A Massive Judgment Against Chevron Lost Everything • Discoverology

How The Environmental Lawyer Who Won A Massive Judgment Against Chevron Lost Everything

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Few news outlets covered the detention of Steven Donziger, who won a multibillion-dollar judgment in Ecuador against Chevron over the massive contamination in the Lago Agrio region and has been fighting on behalf of Indigenous people and farmers there for more than 25 years.

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