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The oil industry's shadow falls over the destruction of indigenous South American tribes, and cancer rates among children that are three times the national average in Ecuadorian villages. In Angola, a corrupt dictator accused of torture and murder receives generous funding from ExxonMobil in exchange for lucrative drilling rights. That's why Corporate Accountability International is campaigning around the world to challenge two of the most egregious oil companies in the world, ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco, and their leading trade association, the American Petroleum Institute (API). We're working to stop Big Oil's abusive practices which are contributing to the climate-change crisis and other ecological disasters, as well as the wholesale destruction of communities and traditional ways of life.
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Think you have it bad at the gas pump? All over the world, people feel the squeeze from the cut-throat practices of the oil industry. From the Exxon Valdez oil spill to the death of Ken Saro Wiwa who was executed for protesting Shell's oil drilling of the Niger Delta, the oil industry has been behind some of the most devastating environmental disasters and human rights abuses in recent history.