SourceMaterial

NEW: Licence to spill: How the UK’s dirtiest oil refinery dodged a government investigation into pollution. Read our investigation into Stanlow refinery's years of pollution www.source-material.org/essar-stanlo...

It's great to see two of our reporters, @lukewbarratt.bsky.social and @atikarehman.bsky.social, named as winners of a @coveringclimatenow.org award. We worked with @earthjournalism.bsky.social and journalists across Asia to investigate the environmental impact of a massive increase in data centres.

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. www.source-material.org/amazon-data-...

“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. www.source-material.org/ghg-protocol...

At the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Essar owed $3.1 billion to VTB, the Kremlin-controlled Russian bank. Our latest story, with the Guardian, reveals that its response to sanctions on VTB was to shift the loans out of the EU from Cyprus to Mauritius. www.source-material.org/essar-stanlo...

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. www.source-material.org/eni-italian-...

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. www.source-material.org/eni-italian-...

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. www.source-material.org/eni-italian-...

New: Last month, Indonesian authorities arrested 11 people on suspicion of bribery and disguising palm oil as a less strictly regulated byproduct. SourceMaterial can reveal that exporters targeted in this probe supplied major international companies. www.source-material.org/indonesian-e...

Indonesian exporters targeted in a palm oil bribery probe supplied major international companies, casting doubt on Europe’s ability to prevent fraud in its biofuels market, a SourceMaterial investigation has found. www.source-material.org/indonesian-e...

Last year, we travelled to Mozambique to reveal how TotalEnergies funded troops it knew stood accused of rape and murder. Today, after reviewing SourceMaterial’s findings and reporting by Politico, the UK government announced it would withdraw a $1.15 billion loan to the project.

NEW: Leaked documents reveal Amazon's "dirty energy empire". Soaring electricity demand in Mumbai, where Amazon has 16 data centres, has led to crumbling coal power stations being kept open—and fears AI is helping keep the world hooked on fossil fuels. www.source-material.org/amazon-data-...

We're thrilled to have won the Society of Editors Media Freedom Award 2025 for environment journalism! Our investigation into the millions of UK tyres being dumped in India - and boiled in highly dangerous conditions - with our ace BBC co-reporters had widespread impact.

The investigation prompted the Environment Agency to launch a full review admitting UK tyres were being illegally diverted, with new oversight reforms starting October 1. MPs cited the findings in Parliament, a judicial review began, and Maharashtra’s government shut eight plants.

We're thrilled to have won the Society of Editors Media Freedom Award 2025 for environment journalism! Our investigation into the millions of UK tyres being dumped in India - and boiled in highly dangerous conditions - with our ace BBC co-reporters had widespread impact.

Working with a whistleblower and the BBC, we followed GPS trackers placed in UK tyre shipments, tracing them to illegal Indian plants. Documents falsely listed destinations, and UK tyres were even found openly traded on Facebook.

We're thrilled to have won the Society of Editors Media Freedom Award 2025 for environment journalism! Our investigation into the millions of UK tyres being dumped in India - and boiled in highly dangerous conditions - with our ace BBC co-reporters had widespread impact.

And since we're talking awards... we've been on a roll recently! 🏆 On Tuesday, we won the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism for another investigation into Russia's shadow fleet, alongside over 40 collaborators from all around Europe.

This is the winning story: www.source-material.org/russia-oil-s...