Reuters: Ecuador is willing to mediate a settlement between Chevron Corp and 30,000 Amazon jungle dwellers suing the oil company for up to US$16 billion in environmental damages, the country’s top attorney said Wednesday. Peasants and Indians are suing the US company in an Ecuadorean court over charges its Texaco unit polluted the jungle and damaged their health by dumping 18 billion gallons (68 billion litres) of oil-laden water from 1972 to 1992. The case, which Chevron calls a …