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23 November 2024
Toxic Trade
African cities are choking as UK refineries export dirty fuels banned in Europe
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3 November 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 October 2024
Dark Water
How Putin's shadow fleet is illegally dumping oil across the globe
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27 September 2024
Burning Skies
The true toll of Big Oil's gas flaring in Africa and the Middle East
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11 July 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 June 2024
‘Plug and abandon’
Is the oil company that polluted Poole Harbour now risking disaster in the North Sea?
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24 February 2024
‘Fool’s bargain’
The secret payments behind a deal that brought a country to its knees
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7 December 2023
Trojan Horsepower
Formula 1 and the Saudi oil lobby: a tie-up between petrolheads and petrodollars is more than just an exercise in ‘soft power’
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29 November 2023
Scramble for Africa
An Emirati sheikh and an Italian fugitive are hoovering up land for an ambitious carbon offsetting project that critics say will make the climate crisis worse
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2 March 2023
Russian farming bank in sanctions row quietly funded oil deals
Documents reveal state agriculture lender’s key role in exporting Russian oil, contradicting Kremlin claims
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12 December 2022
Total’s Congo offsetting project ‘snatched our land’
Farmers say oil giant’s tree-planting scheme has barred them from their fields and threatens livelihoods.
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