How Chevron Could Still Lose Its Epic Pollution Case

Over the past six weeks inside a Manhattan courtroom, Chevron has dumped a mountain of damning evidence before U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in an effort to undermine a multibillion-dollar pollution verdict the company incurred in Ecuador in 2011. Chevron wants Kaplan to rule that New York-based plaintiffs’ attorney Steven Donziger lied, fabricated evidence, and even blackmailed an Ecuadorian judge as part of an elaborate shakedown. On top of all that, the oil company has produced troubling indications that Donziger’s legal team ghostwrote the contamination judgment.

And still, Chevron could eventually lose this case.