Milton Berle's Texaco Star Theater, which debuted in 1948, later became the Buick-Berle Show.
But reinjection is expensive, and in Ecuador Texaco simply dumped the liquid into swimming-pool-size pits.
Donziger, initially, was involved less in the legal strategy than in a public-relations campaign against Texaco.
For twenty-three years, a consortium of companies, led by Texaco, drilled wells throughout the Ecuadoran Amazon.
But laborers hacked paths with machetes, and, eventually, Texaco paved roads and built an airport.
Politically, there was no way that Texaco was going to be held accountable in Ecuador.
But, on the eve of the Chevron merger, Texaco walked away from the offer.
The plaintiffs say Texaco designed and carried out the drilling program so it is liable.
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Years ago you compared General Motors with Ford and Standard Oil of New Jersey with Texaco.
Trained as a geologist and a 28-year veteran of Texaco, Cazalot became president of Marathon in 2000.
The litigation even outlasted Texaco: in 2001, the company was subsumed by Chevron, which inherited the lawsuit.
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The only way we can grow today is to convince major companies like Texaco to be a partner.
That's "eligible spending, " which, surprisingly, doesn't include fuel purchases at a Chevron, Texaco or any other gas station.
In 1998 contractors on Texaco's Petronius project accidentally dropped a 3, 600-tonne deck module into the Gulf of Mexico.
During the decades when Texaco operated there, the lawsuit maintained, it dumped eighteen billion gallons of toxic waste.
Most Ecuadorans knew little about the science of petroleum extraction and most of what they learned came from Texaco.
Texaco had already pulled out of Ecuador in 1992, handing over their operations to Ecuador's national company, Petroecuador.
Its client list includes individuals such as Tiger Woods and Pete Sampras and companies like General Electric and Texaco.
Half the New Haven stockpile is held by Equiva Trading, a partnership that includes Shell, Texaco and Saudi Refining.
For example, Exxon merged with Mobil, and Chevron acquired Texaco in recent years.
Rocky Rockhold was a field foreman for Texaco and a wealth of knowledge.
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The plaintiffs also claim that the Ecuadorean pipeline, constructed by Texaco, leaked large amounts of petroleum into the environment.
His clients have run the gamut from big oil ( Texaco ) to big baseball ( New York Yankees ).
In 1995, Texaco acknowledged that it had made a mess in the Amazon, and committed itself to doing some remediation.
Lucite tombstones recount conquests involving many of the great companies of the 20th century, from MGM to Motorola, Texaco to Nabisco.
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With nearly 500 Chevron and Texaco stations sitting on empty, nearly 1, 500 truck runs will be necessary to fill them up.
That year a Shell-Texaco venture will begin producing natural gas from the 3-km-by-15-km Malampaya field 750 to 1, 150 meters below sea level.
But, in 1967, American drillers working for Texaco discovered that two miles beneath the jungle floor lay abundant reserves of crude oil.
James Metzger, ECD's chief operating officer since 2002, was Texaco's chief technical officer when the oil firm decided to invest in ECD.
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