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17 October 2024
Dark Water
How Putin’s shadow fleet is illegally dumping oil across the globe
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03.11.2024
Oil lobbyists ‘greenwashing’ Azerbaijan for climate summit
Teneo, a US firm with close ties to the oil industry, will earn millions for enhancing the image of the petrostate as it jails climate activists and ramps up fossil fuel investment
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17.10.2024
Meat giant’s bone incinerator could break emissions laws
Dawn Meats’ planned incinerator in rural Ireland could breach legal limits on ‘irritant gas’, leaked documents show
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27.09.2024
Burning Skies
The true toll of Big Oil’s gas flaring in Africa and the Middle East
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14.09.2024
UAE ‘used Russian mercenary group to arm Sudan rebels’
Wagner, renamed Africa Corps after the death of its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin last year, ‘shipped arms from Dubai’ to militants accused of war crimes in Darfur
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11.07.2024
BP venture sells carbon offsets by ‘saving’ trees that aren’t in danger
Finite Carbon runs the largest forest offsetting projects in the US. Analysis suggests they aren’t doing what they claim
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28.06.2024
‘Plug and abandon’
Is the oil company that polluted Poole Harbour now risking disaster in the North Sea?
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29.05.2024
‘Saviour of carbon markets’ faces questions over African land rights
Carbon Done Right says it has secured 57,000 hectares for offsetting—but no leases have been registered
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10.05.2024
Deadly Legacy
RWE, the UK’s biggest power producer, has a problem with asbestos
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