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How the recycling symbol lost its meaning

Grist

It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time Earth Day special , letting out heavy sighs and listing jumbled statistics about deforestation and the hole in the ozone layer. A woman sorts plastics at the Santa Monica Recycling Center in California in 1992. And do the screw-on caps stay on plastic bottles or not?

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Fenceline Community Groups in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Celebrate Mounting Victories

DeSmogBlog

James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. Robert Taylor and Sharon Lavigne with Pat Bryant protesting in front of the Louisiana State Capitol on June 3, 2019. A few days later, RISE St. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 billion plastics production complex along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, adjacent to several historically Black communities and a mile away from a local elementary school. Protecting at-risk populations.

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As Alarm Over Plastic Grows, Saudis Ramp Up Production in the US

DeSmogBlog

The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids. Environmental Protection Agency who now leads the advocacy group Beyond Plastics and teaches at Bennington College. Credit: Judith Enck.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 billion plastics production complex along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, adjacent to several historically Black communities and a mile away from a local elementary school. Protecting at-risk populations.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 billion plastics production complex along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, adjacent to several historically Black communities and a mile away from a local elementary school. Protecting at-risk populations.

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

Benzene is a colorless, sweet-smelling chemical found in crude oil and products including gasoline, solvents, plastics, paints, adhesives and detergents. A Public Health Watch analysis of TCEQ pollution data shows that between 2019 and 2021, annual readings soared as high as 2.1 But the agency didn’t fine or otherwise penalize K-Solv.