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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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"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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Read our investigation into Stanlow refinery's years of pollution source-material.org/essar-st…
NEW: Licence to spill: How the UK’s dirtiest oil refinery dodged a government investigation into pollution.
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…
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…
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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🎉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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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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“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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Two scientists have resigned from their positions at GHG Protocol amid the battle over forest carbon accounting.
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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.
Our latest investigation is with @dossier_center @FTM_nl @OCCRP @SZ @ndr @thetimes @tijd @vrt @DanWatchDK @pointer_kroncrv @Expressen @DelfiLV @hsfi.
In April 2025, the captain of a shadow fleet oil tanker followed the instructions of Estonian authorities.
Leaked data reveals a huge rise in Russian 'security' guards appearing onboard.
Not long after, the same tanker sailed on, ignoring coastal state demands.
"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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