A California jury has returned a $63 million decision versus Chevron after finding the oil giant covered up a poisonous chemical pit on land acquired by a male who constructed a home on it and was lateron detected with a blood cancer
FILE – A driver drives near the pumps at a Chevron gas station in Oakland, Calif. Tuesday, April 25,2017 California jury has returned a $63 million decision versus Chevron after finding the oil giant covered up a harmful chemical pit and then offered the land to a male who constructed a home on it and was lateron detected with a blood cancer. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
The Associated Press
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — A California jury has returned a $63 million decision versus Chevron after finding the oil giant covered up a poisonous chemical pit on land bought by a guy who constructed a home on it and was lateron identified with a blood cancer.
Kevin Wright, who has numerous myeloma, unwittingly developed his house straight over the chemical pit near Santa Barbara in 1985, according to his claim.
Starting in 1974, Chevron subsidiary Union Oil Company of California had ran a