Oxy faces lawsuit threat over Amazon toxins

May 04, 2007

Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon are warning the US oil giant Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) that it could soon face a lawsuit in the United States if it fails to clean up toxic waste in their tropical rainforest. A new report charges t...

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Oxy faces lawsuit threat over Amazon toxins

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