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By Steven Grattan And Godofredo Vasquez RICHMOND, California (AP) \u2014 An oil tanker sat docked at Chevron\u2019s sprawling refinery in Richmond on Thursday \u2014 a visible link between California\u2019s appetite for Amazon crude and the remote rainforest territories where it\u2019s extracted. Just offshore, bundled in puffy jackets against the Bay wind, Indigenous leaders from Ecuador\u2019s Amazon paddled kayaks through choppy waters, calling attention to the oil expansion threatening their lands. Their visit to California helped prompt the state Senate to introduce a landmark resolution urging officials to examine the state\u2019s role in importing crude from the Amazon. The move comes as Ecuador\u2019s government prepares to auction off 14 new oil blocks \u2014 covering more than 2 million hectares of rainforest, much of it Indigenous territory \u2014 in a 2026 bidding… <\/p>\n

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By Steven Grattan And Godofredo Vasquez RICHMOND, California (AP) \u2014 An oil tanker sat docked at Chevron\u2019s sprawling refinery in Richmond on Thursday \u2014 a visible link between California\u2019s appetite for Amazon crude and the remote rainforest territories where it\u2019s extracted. Just offshore, bundled in puffy jackets against the Bay wind, Indigenous leaders from Ecuador\u2019s Amazon paddled kayaks through choppy waters, calling attention to the oil expansion threatening their lands. Their visit to California helped prompt the state Senate to introduce a landmark resolution urging officials to examine the state\u2019s role in importing crude from the Amazon. The move comes as Ecuador\u2019s government prepares to auction off 14 new oil blocks \u2014 covering more than 2 million hectares of rainforest, much of it Indigenous territory \u2014 in a 2026 bidding... <\/p>\n

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