Texaco actually turned over the facilities to an Ecuadoran company, and they’re the ones who made the environmental mess, but the activists teamed up with some crooked attorneys (who it turned out actually helped write some of their “experts”’ reports citing the environmental and health impact) to go after the big pockets of Texaco.
That’s it in a nutshell.
I figured it was something like that. The letter to editor writer is a well known left-wing moonbat who hates America
and private free enterprise.