Chevron ordered to pay more than $740 million to restore Louisiana coast in landmark trial

Chevron ordered to pay $744 million for decades of destruction to Louisiana’s coastal wetlands

A Louisiana jury’s landmark verdict against Chevron signals a major shift in holding Big Oil accountable for environmental degradation and decades of ignored coastal restoration laws.

Chevron ordered to pay $745 million for damaging Louisiana wetlands over decades

A Louisiana jury found Chevron liable for decades of environmental damage in Plaquemines Parish, ordering the company to pay $745 million for land loss, contamination, and abandoned oil infrastructure.Adeel Hassan reports for The New York Times.In short:Plaquemines Parish argued that Chevron, through its acquisition of Texaco, violated state coastal laws by failing to restore wetlands and remove equipment after oil and gas operations ceased.The …

Chevron Ordered to Pay $744.6 Million for Destroying Louisiana’s Coastal Wetlands

Oil giant Chevron has been ordered by a Louisiana civil court jury to pay $744.6 million to a parish government to help restore coastal wetlands destroyed by the company over a period of decades. The lawsuit was the first of 42 filed against the company since 2013, reported The Guardian. The jury found that energy major Texaco — bought by Chevron in 2001 — had been violating state coastal resources regulations by not restoring wetlands that were…

A U.S. jury ordered the oil giant Chevron to pay $745 million for polluting marshes near the city of New Orleans and subsequently not rehabilitating the affected area. The sentence was handed down on Friday by a jury from Pointe to the Hache, in the parish of Plaquemines (Luisiana), a marshy area southeastern of New Orleans. Chevron’s chief lawyer at the trial, Mike Phillips, told the AFP that the company “will appeal this verdict to deal with t…

Chevron destroyed Louisiana wetlands—and now it must pay $740 million to clean them up

Oil company Chevron must pay $744.6 million to restore damage it caused to southeast Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, a jury ruled on Friday following a landmark trial more than a decade in the making.The case was the first of dozens of pending lawsuits to reach trial in Louisiana against the world’s leading oil companies for their role in accelerating land loss along the state’s rapidly disappearing coast. The verdict—which Chevron says it will ap…

The jury awarded the Plaquemines community $575 million for the loss of part of its land, now perpetually submerged, $161 million for pollution and $9 million for the abandonment of tools.