{"id":17701,"date":"2025-04-06T02:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T02:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/chevron-must-pay-745-million-for-coastal-damages-louisiana-jury-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T02:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T02:23:09","slug":"chevron-must-pay-745-million-for-coastal-damages-louisiana-jury-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/chevron-must-pay-745-million-for-coastal-damages-louisiana-jury-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Chevron Must Pay $745 Million for Coastal Damages, Louisiana Jury Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A jury in Louisiana has ruled that Chevron must pay a parish government about $745 million to help restore wetlands that the jury said the energy company had harmed for decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The verdict, which was reached on Friday, is likely to influence similar lawsuits filed by other parishes, or counties, in the state against other energy giants and their possible settlement negotiations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The lawsuit, filed by Plaquemines Parish, is one of at least 40 that coastal parishes have filed against fossil fuel companies since 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The lawsuit contended that Texaco \u2014 which Chevron <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2000\/10\/16\/business\/chevron-agrees-to-buy-texaco-for-stock-valued-at-36-billion.html\" title=\"\">bought<\/a> in 2000 \u2014 violated state law for decades by failing to apply for coastal permits, and by not removing oil and gas equipment when it stopped using an oil field in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/lacoast.gov\/new\/About\/Basin_data\/bs\/Default.aspx\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Breton Sound<\/a>, which is southeast of New Orleans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/regulations\/louisiana\/La-Admin-Code-tit-43-SS-I-719\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">state regulation<\/a> in 1980 required companies operating in wetlands to restore \u201cas near as practicable to their original condition\u201d any canals that they dredged, wells that they drilled or wastewater that they dumped into marshes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Plaquemines Parish, which had sought $2.6 billion in damages, argued that wetland loss and pollution were directly linked to the oil and gas work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">However, Chevron said that its activities were not responsible for the decades of damage. Moreover, it said that the regulations that went into effect in 1980 did not apply to oil and gas activity that began earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The jury, after a four-week trial, awarded Plaquemines Parish $575 million to compensate for land loss, $161 million to compensate for contamination and $8.6 million for abandoned equipment. Chevron said it would appeal the verdict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis verdict is just one step in the process to establish that the 1980 law does not apply to conduct that occurred decades before the law was enacted,\u201d Mike Phillips, the lead trial lawyer for Chevron, said in a statement on Saturday. \u201cChevron is not the cause of the land loss occurring in Breton Sound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Louisiana\u2019s state government, while usually friendly to the oil and gas industry, took the side of Plaquemines in the lawsuit, as the state struggles to reverse vast coastal land loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The state has lost more than <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/midbasin.coastal.la.gov\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">2,000 square miles<\/a>, about the land area of Delaware, because of sea level rise and the loss of sediment that a free-flowing Mississippi River used to leave behind along the coast, until the river was constrained by levees built for flood control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The loss in Plaquemines Parish, which is 10 miles downriver of New Orleans, is particularly acute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The parish <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/07\/21\/magazine\/louisiana-coast-engineering.html\" title=\"\">has been reduced<\/a> by nearly half its original size in the last century. Oil-and-gas canals crisscross its wetlands, exacerbating seawater destruction of marsh vegetation. The state has taken aggressive countermeasures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Louisiana has enacted a 50-year, $50 billion coastal master plan to try to save what it can from the rising Gulf of Mexico. The plan includes 124 projects designed to dredge sand, rebuild degraded marshes, and add levees, floodgates and storm surge barriers. 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