Oil on Trial

Three major oil companies ?Exxon Mobil, Chevron/Texaco and Royal Dutch Shell oil companies face a series of lawsuits alleging the firms engaged in environmental and human rights abuses, including wrongful deaths.

The world’s biggest oil companies are facing allegations of crimes ranging from failing to clean up spills all the way to murder. George Washington University’s International Law Professor Dinah Shelton walks host Steve Curwood through three landmark cases from Nigeria, Ecuador and Indonesia.

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