California is to examine its Amazon oil ties following pleas from Indigenous leaders from Ecuador

An oil tanker sat docked at Chevron’s sprawling refinery in Richmond on Thursday – a visible link between California’s appetite for Amazon crude and the remote rainforest territories where it’s extracted. Just offshore, bundled in puffy jackets against the Bay wind, Indigenous leaders from Ecuador’s Amazon paddled kayaks through choppy waters, calling attention to the oil expansion threatening their lands.