Renowned environmental justice lawyer, writer, and activist Steven Donziger is known for his work addressing human rights abuses and corporate malfeasance. He is best known for securing a historic $9.5 billion pollution judgment in Ecuador against Chevron Corporation on behalf of over 30,000 Indigenous people and local farmers. The case involved devastating oil-related environmental damage to the Amazon rainforest. Chevron launched an intense legal counter-offensive in the United States, abusing the US justice system to try to dismantle the legal defense against their environmental and human destruction in Ecuador.