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Experts say a proposed revamp to the recycling symbol is still deceptive —...
Walk into the grocery store and check the back of a container of food. Chances are, you’ll see a small box with instructions on how to dispose of the packaging when you’re finished with it: “empty...
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Meatpacking plants mostly pollute low-income, communities of color, EPA data...
In March, officials in Postville shut down its water treatment facility for two days as city employees worked to prevent polluted water from a meatpacking plant from entering the water supply. Agri...
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Utility regulators take millions from industries they oversee. What could go...
It was 2:30 in the morning on November 6, 2014, when flames engulfed the New Orleans home of political consultant Mario Zervigon. Someone had lit his cars on fire, and the flames spread to his house....
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LA County sues Pepsi and Coke over plastic pollution and false advertising
Los Angeles County announced last week that it’s suing PepsiCo and Coca-Cola over plastic pollution, arguing that the soda giants’ plastic bottles have harmed public health and the environment and...
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‘Net-zero’ banks raised $1 trillion for fossil fuel giants
Less than a hundred miles from where world leaders are discussing how to meet their climate pledges, BP is drilling for gas. The Shafag-Asiman project, a sprawling gas field off the Azerbaijani coast,...
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New York’s plastic lawsuit against PepsiCo has been dismissed. What’s next?
Late last month, the New York state Supreme Court granted a request from PepsiCo to dismiss a plastic pollution lawsuit brought against it by the state’s attorney general, Letitia James. The...
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Spying from space: How satellites can help identify and rein in a potent...
On a blustery day in early March, the who’s who of methane research gathered at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara, California. Dozens of people crammed into a NASA mission control center....
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North Carolina town sues Duke Energy for climate ‘deception’
A small town in North Carolina has taken a bold step, filing the first climate “deception” lawsuit against an electric utility in the United States. In a civil lawsuit, the Town Council of Carrboro...
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After 2 years, Coca-Cola’s promise to scale up reusable packaging is dead
Despite growing public scrutiny and legal challenges over its use of plastic, Coca-Cola appears to be moving backward on packaging sustainability. Earlier this decade, the soda giant publicly pledged...
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Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ taint rural California drinking water, far from...
Juana Valle never imagined she’d be scared to drink water from her tap or eat fresh eggs and walnuts when she bought her 5-acre farm in San Juan Bautista, California, three years ago. Escaping city...
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Indigenous people defending their land face a disproportionate share of...
In the first-ever global study of its kind, researchers concluded that more attention needs to be paid to physical attacks and threats against land defenders, since those incidents often are the...
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