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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.
NEW: Licence to spill: How the UK’s dirtiest oil refinery dodged a government investigation into pollution.
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.
“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.
“It's nonsense”—how lobbyists pushed a leading emissions watchdog to the brink of declaring that chopping down trees helps the climate.
NEW: In Kenya, poor farmers have gone hungry after signing up for a biofuel project with the Italian oil major Eni, SourceMaterial’s investigation has discovered.
“My family really suffered because of the hunger”
As part of a flagship biofuel project, the Italian energy major Eni has handed out castor seeds to over a hundred thousand Kenyan farmers. In interviews with SourceMaterial, many farmers said the project has failed them.
Seeds of doubt: how the Italian oil giant Eni handed out castor seeds to over a hundred thousand Kenyan farmers to make biofuel from the harvest, before leaving many without income or food.
🎉 Thrilled that SourceMaterial was Highly Commended at the British Journalism Awards for Energy & Environment Journalism!
Huge thanks to our amazing team for all their hard work — onto the next story! ⚡🌿
