Claims against Chevron tossed
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A U.S. court dismissed three lawsuits by Ecuadoreans who admitted allegations that pollution by Chevron Corp. had caused them or their relatives’ cancer were false.
The suits were part of a group of claims alleging that the company’s dumping in the Ecuadorean rain forest caused cancer in the communities. Several lawsuits remain under those claims.
They are unrelated to a larger litigation going on in Ecuador, which seeks $6 billion in damages from the U.S. oil company on charges that it contaminated the rain forest from 1972 to 1992. Chevron denies the claims.
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