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===We Can Change Chevron: toxic waste oil===
Launched in December 2009, the We Can Change Chevron campaign targets the California-based oil corporation for their subsidiary Texaco's dumping of {{convert|18|e9USgal|m3}} of [[waste oil]] into the [[Amazon Rainforest]] in [[Ecuador]].<ref name="csmonitor1">{{Cite journal
  | last = Llana
  | first = Sara Miller
  | title = Chevron fights massive lawsuit in Ecuador
  | journal = Christian Science Monitor
  | url = http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Living-Green/2009/0529/chevron-fights-massive-lawsuit-in-ecuador
  | access-date = 2009-05-29
  | date = 2009-05-29
  | archive-date = 2009-12-26
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091226012327/http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Living-Green/2009/0529/chevron-fights-massive-lawsuit-in-ecuador
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref> We Can Change Chevron aims to pressure Chevron into paying for the cleanup of the waste oil pits abandoned by their subsidiary, and to develop an environmental and human rights policy that will prevent future scenarios like this from occurring in the future. Chevron acquired Texaco in 2001, and asserts that Texaco completed its agreement to clean up its share of the waste generated by the joint venture between Texaco and Petroecuador, the state run oil company. The company claims it cleaned up one third of the waste, more than its share of the agreement with Petroecuador, and the rest of the responsibility lies with the state who has had sole ownership of the oil fields since 1992.<ref name="csmonitor1"/><ref>{{cite web
  | title = History of Texaco and Chevron in Ecuador
  | url = http://www.texaco.com/sitelets/ecuador/en/history/
  | access-date = 2010-12-13
  | archive-date = 2010-11-24
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101124145606/http://www.texaco.com/sitelets/ecuador/en/history/
  | url-status = dead
  }}</ref> The case resulted in a historic ruling against the oil giant, who was ordered to pay $18 billion in damages to the plaintiffs. After an appeal by Chevron, the judgement was upheld by an Ecuadorian court in January 2012.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gomez |first=Victor |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-chevron-idUSTRE8021VS20120104 |title=Ecuador court upholds $18 billion ruling against Chevron |newspaper=Reuters |date=January 3, 2012 |access-date=2012-12-30 |archive-date=2016-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310173053/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-chevron-idUSTRE8021VS20120104 |url-status=live }}</ref>