Yemen: How Lax Oversight and War Thwarted Efforts to Hold Yemen’s Oil Polluters to Account

Dec 6, 2023 | Ahmed al-Waseai, Rana Sabbagh, Selma Mhaoud, Abdulwahed Alobaly, Motea Bamzahem, and Zaher Binashikhbubkr, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
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In 2014, Yemeni lawmakers received a report on widespread environmental violations in the country’s oil sector. The report was shelved after civil war broke out, and efforts to clean up the industry have continued to fall short.