Pelleting plants for Drax biomass burning plant committing average of 5 environmental breaches per day “Extreme. I don’t even think the worst-performing [English] water companies have got daily breaches of this number” says senior environmental lawyer thetimes.com/article/1760e7…

Drax, the UK’s biggest power station, is sourcing fuel from American wood pellet plants that have broken environmental regulations more than 11,000 times, an investigation for The Times has found Story 👇 thetimes.com/uk/environment…

You can read the Land and Climate Review version of this story here: landclimate.org/appalling-drax…

🔎 Over 11,000 🚨 Number of times the American wood pellet plants owned by The Drax Group and supplying Drax, the UK’s biggest power station, have broken environmental regulations. buff.ly/3ArpC44

In their new book Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton study this risky approach to climate policy, and the economic interests that they theorise have led to it. Do listen 🎧 ⁦Land and Climate Review⁩ landclimate.org/overshoot/

"There is no biodiversity. There are few spots left here because the sugar cane is all around." Bertie Harrison-Broninski (@bertiehb.bsky.social) spoke with Maria Arango about a new report, alleging that the sugarcane industry threatens Afro-Colombian communities. landclimate.org/how-is-colombi… #COP16 #FORESTRY

Click below to listen to Alasdair MacEwen interview Bertie Harrison-Broninski (@bertiehb.bsky.social) and Camille Corcoran on the process of our investigation series on #BIOMASS 👇 landclimate.org/how-we-uncover…

Further questions around the #sustainabilty of forest #biomass were raised in the UK House of Lords last week. Listen to how journos at Land and Climate Review uncovered evidence of more than 11,000!! environmental violations in the US alone on the part of a huge pellet mill company.

Excellent reporting by Camille Corcoran for Land and Climate Review on wood pellet behemoth, Drax's continued and exorbitant violations of environmental regulations. landclimate.org/drax-usa-11000/

Margareth Aritonang from The Gecko Project (BlueSky: @thegeckoproject.org) tells Alasdair MacEwen about Prabowo Subianto's links to “coal mining, timber plantations, fishing and palm oil," in our most recent episode of the Land and Climate Podcast. Click to listen and to access the report. landclimate.org/indonesia-busi…

“To have an award against a developing country of $6 billion is outrageous. The system has become disproportionate.” This week, Camille Corcoran speaks with experts on investor-state disputes and their threat to countries’ green energy efforts. landclimate.org/shocking-and-s…

“People dying has not historically been a problem for capitalism.” Click below to listen Bertie Harrison-Broninski (@bertiehb.bsky.social) interview @StaleHolgersen about his new book, “Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World” published by Verso Books👇 landclimate.org/against-the-cr…

Rising sea levels have consumed two-thirds of Tangier Island since 1850. Residents deny climate change, calling it "God-made erosion." Read an extract from Anne Helen Toomey’s “Science with Impact” on the polarity of climate change in America 👇 landclimate.org/science-with-i…

This week, Alasdair MacEwen interviews Oscar Berglund, Senior Lecturer at University of Bristol, on his recent report: “Criminalisation and Repression of Climate and Environmental Protests,” outlining the mechanisms of oppression of protests. Click to listen 👇 landclimate.org/is-the-clampdo…

Enjoyed this interview for the Land & Climate podcast on our research about criminalisation of protest UoBris PolicyStudies Chris Rossdale @RoxyCavalcanti Cabot Institute for the Environment🏳️‍🌈✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

A great 25 minute interview on the Land and Climate Review podcast

Wonderful evening at CIoJ, nominated alongside Bertie Harrison-Broninski (@bertiehb.bsky.social) and Camille Corcoran for environmental journalist of the year! Our Land and Climate Review investigations looked at Drax’s supply chain in the UK and beyond. #YJA25