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"Regulators must close these loopholes."
We investigated Stanlow refinery's environmental record, finding that UK authorities awarded it a 'no-limit' permit that helped it avoid scrutiny for discharging oil in a protected wildlife site.
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Natural England, the government body charged with protecting wildlife habitats, shelved an investigation after Stanlow’s owner, the Indian conglomerate Essar, cited a permit that set “no limit” to discharges at the site.
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NEW: Licence to spill: How the UK’s dirtiest oil refinery dodged a government investigation into pollution.
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Read our investigation into Stanlow refinery's years of pollution source-material.org/essar-st…
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It's great to see two of our reporters, @lukewbarratt and @AtikaRehman, named as winners of a @CoveringClimate award.
We worked together with Earth Journalism Network and with journalists across Asia to investigate the environmental impact of a massive increase in data centres.
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We published two stories as part of this project. The first used leaked internal data from Amazon Web Services to reveal that the company is using twice as many data centres worldwide as previously thought source-material.org/amazon-d…
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The second investigated the impact of some of those hidden data centres in Mumbai, where the increased power demands of new data centres has prompted the local government to cancel the closures of two highly polluting coal power plants source-material.org/amazon-d…
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🎉Our project Dark Side of the Boom goes on to win the @CoveringClimate award for large collaborations. A proud moment for all partners who worked tirelessly to make this happen. The series becomes a landmark reporting bucket spotlighting the beginnings of the dirty energy empire
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“Harvesting and using wood for any purpose becomes carbon negative, and the more wood used the better.”
Inside the battle between lobbyists and scientists at GHG Protocol over how to count emissions from deforestation.
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In a pilot of the industry proposal, one US paper company found that its use of wood not only emitted no greenhouse gases but actually removed 45 million tonnes of carbon—equivalent to the annual emissions from 12 coal power stations.
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“It's nonsense”—how lobbyists pushed a leading emissions watchdog to the brink of declaring that chopping down trees helps the climate.
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Two scientists have resigned from their positions at GHG Protocol amid the battle over forest carbon accounting.
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"I was finding out who was snitching, who they were working for."
Meet the Russian security guards, including ex-combatants of Wagner, who are stationed aboard Russia's shadow fleet ships to control the captain.
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In undercover interviews, these men have told us they must make sure the shadow fleet tanker reaches its destination without being stopped by western nations as the ship passes through.
In 2025, the vessels carried between $80 and $100 billion worth of oil.
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Our latest investigation is with @dossier_center @FTM_nl @OCCRP @SZ @ndr @thetimes @tijd @vrt @DanWatchDK @pointer_kroncrv @Expressen @DelfiLV @hsfi.
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