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The report documents widespread environmental degradation and human rights violations resulting from SMB's bauxite mining in Guinea. Key findings include severe air and water pollution, illegal land dispossession, inadequate compensation, and negative health outcomes for local communities. The audit concludes that SMB has violated multiple Guinean laws and international standards, leading to a loss of livelihoods and food security. The affected communities demand a restoration plan for livelihoods, rehabilitation of water sources, and the abandonment of a proposed coal-fired power plant for an alumina refinery.

The report details how North Denver serves as a critical hub for energy, goods production, and transport for the wider region while its residents bear the cumulative health and environmental costs. It identifies widespread EPA violations among local facilities and highlights significant data gaps that hinder community oversight.

The report details a multi-decade pattern of environmental degradation, safety failures, and human rights abuses by the Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) across Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the United States. It highlights specific disasters, such as the 2016 marine life catastrophe in Vietnam and toxic dumping in Cambodia, alongside chronic pollution and safety lapses at US facilities in Texas, Louisiana, and Delaware. The document specifically critiques FPG's planned 'Sunshine Project' in St. James Parish, Louisiana, as an act of environmental racism. It concludes that the petrochemical industry's inherent risks, combined with FPG's corporate obfuscation and history of noncompliance, necessitate a halt to new plastics plants and a shift away from fossil-fuel-based petrochemicals.

The Penhalonga Community Environmental Audit Report describes a community-led 'ground-truthing' process conducted over 16 months to examine company compliance with environmental laws and regulations in Penhalonga, Zimbabwe, a region historically impacted by gold mining.

The report critiques the Regenerated Fiber Green Development Alliance's three-year roadmap for Chinese viscose producers, finding it insufficient compared to international standards like the EU BAT. It highlights ongoing pollution from alliance members and recommends adopting more rigorous auditing and emission limits.

The report argues that the Collaboration for Sustainable Development of Viscose (CV) Roadmap lacks the ambition, transparency, and rigor necessary to transform the Chinese viscose industry. It finds that the initiative allows producers to use weak certification standards and fails to mandate the highest production levels, falling short of the European Commission's Best Available Techniques (BAT). The document highlights ongoing pollution at CV member sites and recommends aligning the roadmap with CanopyStyle audits and EU BAT to ensure genuine environmental protection.

The review identifies critical gaps in the hydrogeological and wetland assessments for the Yzermyn Underground Coal Mine, specifically regarding the impact of mine dewatering on sensitive ecosystems and the lack of post-closure water treatment planning.

The review finds that the specialist studies for the Yzermyn underground coal mine are materially incomplete, particularly regarding hydrogeology, wetlands, and hydrology. The groundwater model is classified as low confidence (Class 1), failing to account for seasonal variations or the specific characteristics of dolerite sills, dykes, and faults. This leads to an underestimation of impacts on groundwater-dependent ecosystems, including the potential drying up of springs and wetlands. Hydrological assessments are based on outdated layouts and fail to adhere to General Notice 704 regarding flood line Exclusion Zones. Consequently, the report argues that the issued IWUL lacks sufficient conditions to mitigate environmental risks to an acceptable standard.

The review concludes that the Yzermyn underground coal project's EIAR and EMPr are of poor quality, failing to address critical concerns raised by the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA), Department of Water Affairs (DWA), and Department of Mineral Resources (DMR). Key failures include the lack of updated specialist studies for the 'best environmental option', inadequate assessment of acid mine drainage (AMD) and its long-term decant risks, and a failure to account for cumulative impacts on 'irreplaceable' biodiversity and water resources. The reviewer asserts that the project's focus on surface 'footprint' impacts ignores wider landscape-scale damage to Freshwater Ecosystem Priority Areas (FEPAs) and the Grassland Important Bird Area. Furthermore, the review finds that the Environmental Authorisation was granted despite these deficiencies, relying on misleading information and failing to apply the NEMA principles of sustainable development.

This document consists of a formal submission by the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) and an accompanying independent peer review by Carin Bosman Sustainable Solutions (CBSS). It critiques the Integrated Water Use Licence Application (IWULA) Report prepared by Jones and Wagner for KiPower's proposed 600 MW coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The CER and CBSS conclude that the IWULA is 'Inadequate' due to significant procedural and substantive failures, including the absence of a practical Integrated Water and Waste Management Plan (IWWMP) Action Plan and a failure to adequately assess impacts on groundwater and other water users.

The report finds that while cloth and leather exports in Pakistan generate significant pollution—including toxic chemical runoff and carcinogenic waste—the costs of implementing cleaner production technologies are modest at both the macro and micro levels. For cloth production, mitigation could reduce pollution loads by up to 91%, with costs representing only 0.0011% of the 1996-97 GNP. For leather tanning, mitigation could reduce pollution by 66%, with net costs (after chromium recovery) amounting to 0.0025% of GNP. The authors argue that meeting international environmental standards is a 'win-win' that ensures market access and improves public health, urging the Pakistani government to proactively provide information on global standards to exporters.

This report, prepared by GCS Water and Environment (Pty) Ltd for the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER), reviews the Integrated Water Use License Application (IWULA) and the resulting license (IWUL) issued to Atha-Africa Ventures (Pty) Ltd for the proposed Yzermyn underground coal mine in Mpumalanga. GCS concludes that the specialist studies supporting the license are fundamentally flawed, containing significant data gaps and low-confidence modeling. The review highlights a high risk of irreversible damage to sensitive wetlands and groundwater resources, noting that the IWUL lacks sufficient conditions to mitigate these impacts and fails to authorize critical post-closure water treatment needs.

The report details the findings of a 16-month community environmental audit in Penhalonga, Zimbabwe, conducted between 2017 and 2018. It identifies significant legal and environmental violations by two gold mining companies: Redwing Mine, which is linked to air pollution from tailings dumps, water pollution from sewage and chemical runoff, and labor rights violations; and DTZ-OZGEO, which caused extensive degradation of the Mutare River, land abandonment, and cultural desecration. The document also notes a lack of transparency regarding new diamond mining prospects by the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) and proposes specific environmental and social remedies.