Plaintiffs against Chevron received threats, says legal petition

-Contributed by Erwin Cifuentes. Plaintiffs in a case against multinational oil company Chevron allege that they have received threats, according to a petition filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Tuesday. Chevron is being sued in Ecuadorian courts on accusations that one of their predecessors dumped 18 billion gallons of toxic water into the Amazon rainforest. (Mercury News)