23 Dec Chevron to pay $45M to U.S., Native Americans in settlement (USA Today)
Chevron will pay $45.5 million to resolve claims that it underpaid natural gas royalties to the government and Native Americans, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. Most of the settlement money will be distributed to federal, state and American Indian accounts affected by the underpayments. More than $12.3 million of the amount will go to the heirs of the whistle-blower who filed the lawsuit in Beaumont, Texas… go to article