Chevron’s legal battles in Ecuador

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Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the BBC's Irene Caselli about the latest turn in a long legal battle over the environmental legacy of oil drilling in the Ecuadorean Amazon. A court yesterday ordered the US company Chevron to pay damages of roughly $9 billion in the case. 

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