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Between 2013 and 2018 this company paid zero tax on a total income of $12 billion, earning the number 14 spot on Michael West's Top 40 Tax Dodgers 2020. West calculated which of Australia's largest companies have paid the least tax, or no tax, on the highest incomes using five years of tax transparency data published by the Australian Tax Office.
Source: Michael West (2020)

Amazon Watch's Chevron Toxico campaign is calling for a boycott of Chevron for deliberately dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic oil waste into the Ecuadorian Amazon and failing to clean it up. Now Chevron is suing anyone who speaks out against it.
Source: Amazon Watch (2020)

This company ranked 9th on the list of 100 oil & gas companies in the 2016 Carbon Underground 200, a ranking of fossil fuel companies being targeted for divestment. Companies are ranked by the potential carbon emissions content of their proven reserves. The reserves of these companies total almost five times more than can be burned for the world to have an 80% chance of limiting global temperature rise to 2°C.
Source: Fossil Free Indexes (2016)

The Talking Trash 2020 report by Changing Markets investigates the corporate playbook of false solutions to the plastic crisis. It found that the industry is actively delaying and derailing ambitious action on plastic pollution in its fight to maintain business as usual for as long as possible. For example, this plastic producing company is signed up to two nice-sounding voluntary initiatives to address plastic waste, while also participating in one industry association which lobbies against legislation that could restrict plastic, or make corporations responsible for managing the waste they create, financially or otherwise.
Source: Changing Markets (2020)

Chevron is responsible for one of the largest environmental disasters in history. Today the oil giant is waging unprecedented public relations and lobbying campaigns to avoid having to clean up environmental and public health catastrophes that continue today.
Source: FDA (2020)

As You Sow's 2022 report, 'Road to Zero Emissions', assessed the progress of 55 of the largest U.S. corporations in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in line with the Paris Agreement's objective of limiting global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, which requires achieving "net zero" emissions by 2050. Companies are graded on: climate related disclosures; GHG reduction targets, and GHG reductions. This company received an Overall Net Zero grade of F.
Source: As You Sow (2022)

As You Sow's 2019 report, Mining the Disclosures, is a deep analysis of 215 companies' human rights performance in relation to sourcing conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This company's score was 3.3% (Weak).
Source: As You Sow (2019)

Chevron has operated in Tengiz, Kazakhstan, since 1993. This 2013 report by Crude Accountability chronicles Chevron's impact on the environment and the rights of workers and local residents through its operations in Tengiz. Chevron owns 50% of Tengizchevroil (TCO), the operator at Tengiz. TCO was fined US$33m in 2010 and over US$79m in 2012 by Kazakhstan courts for polluting the environment.
Source: Crude Accountability (2013)

This company is on Global Exchange's "Top Ten Corporate Criminals Alumni" for several serious human rights violations including damaging ecosystem and people of Ecuador, repression of protest to oil extraction, and Brazil spill.
Source: Global Exchange (2017)

As You Sow's 2019 report, 'Disclosing the Facts: Transparency and Risk in Hydraulic Fracturing Operations', benchmarks 28 companies engaged in hydraulic fracturing ('fracking') against investor needs for disclosure of operational impacts and mitigation efforts. This company only succeeded in disclosing information on 5 of the 43 indicators related to management of toxic chemicals, water and waste, air emissions, methane leakage and community impacts.
Source: As You Sow (2019)

In 2018 the Union of Concerned Scientists published their Climate Accountability Scorecard, which measures the progress of major fossil fuel companies to stop spreading climate disinformation and to fix their business plans to achieve dramatic reductions in global warming emissions. This company rated Egregious for disinformation, Poor for business planning, and Fair for policy and disclosure.
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists (2018)

This company received a score of 37.7/100 in the Newsweek Green Ranking 2017, which ranks the world's largest publicly traded companies on eight indicators covering energy, greenhouse gases, water, waste, fines and penalties, linking executive pay to sustainability targets, board-level committee oversight of environmental issues and third-party audits. Ranking methodology by Corporate Knights and HIP Investor.
Source: Newsweek (2017)

InfluenceMap's 2021 Climate Policy Footprint report identifies the world's most obstructive corporate and industry association holding back Paris Agreement-aligned climate policy. This company is named in the report as the world's second most negatively influential corporation. "Highly strategic policy engagement, promoting oil & gas in the energy mix. Dense network of industry associations actively opposing climate policy in the US and globally."
Source: Influence Map (2021)

This company is the world's 27th largest producer of single-use plastic waste, according to Minderoo Foundation's 2021 Plastic Waste Makers Index. In 2019, just 20 polymer producers accounted for more than half of all single-use plastic waste generated globally, and the top 100 accounted for 90 per cent. Plastic pollution is one of the biggest, most urgent threats facing our planet and our health.
Source: Minderoo Foundation (2021)

'The Big Con' is a 2021 report by Corporate Accountability, Friends of the Earth and others that makes clear that Big Polluters' idea of "net zero" is part of their continued plan to protect deeply unjust global systems, distract from taking the real action needed, and to evade responsibility for the climate crisis and to continue to pollute. This company was named in the report as one whose "net zero" climate commitments are anything but real action.
Source: Corporate Accountability (2021)

In January 2013 The California Division of Occupational Health & Safety issued 25 citations against Chevron with penalties of $963,200 for safety standard violations on 6 August 2012 related to the fire at the Richmond refinery factory. The penalties are the highest in California's history and the highest allowed under state law. In August 2013 Chevron agreed to pay $2m in fines and restitution which were additional to the $10m paid to affected community workers and local government agencies.
Source: Reuters (2013)

This company is on OpenSecrets.org's list of "Top Donors", a list of the 100 biggest givers in US federal-level politics since 1990. Companies on this list lobby and spend big, with large sums sent to candidates, parties and leadership PACs. This company comes in at number 79 on the list, with contributions totalling $37,163,933 between 1990 and 2020.
Source: Open Secrets (2020)