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Inside the long war to protect plastic
Reading Time: 13 minutes New York’s Suffolk County had a trash problem. Facing brimming landfills and public pressure, legislators took a first-in-the-nation step: They banned plastic bags. But what...
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As the world grapples with plastic, the U.S. makes more of it — a lot more
Reading Time: 14 minutes MUSTANG ISLAND, Texas — Jace Tunnell shuffled forward near the water’s edge, head bent. He was hunting for something that shouldn’t be on this beach near Corpus Christi, and he...
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America’s grungy ‘recycled’ plastic is creating wastelands in Asia
Reading Time: 9 minutes SELANGOR, Malaysia — Follow the stench and you will find them: flaming heaps of dirty plastic, gushing black smoke, bringing death to a place otherwise teeming with life. This...
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A likely but hidden coronavirus risk factor: pollution
Reading Time: 6 minutes This article was co-published by Mother Jones. Are you a health worker, medical provider, COVID-19 patient, or federal employee on the front lines of the pandemic? We want to...
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Why you should report on environmental justice — and how to get started
Reading Time: 5 minutes You don’t need to report on the environment to investigate environmental justice. The issue intersects with many other topics: politics, planning and zoning, budgets, business,...
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Facing environmental discrimination? Read this before complaining to EPA
Reading Time: 9 minutes Is your neighborhood choked with pollution or facing other environmental woes that you think are discriminatory? You can write to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to...
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EPA promised to address environmental racism. Then states pushed back.
Reading Time: 22 minutes Subscribe on Google | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon This story also appeared in Mother Jones FLINT, Mich. — Civil rights law offers a tool for communities of color trying...
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Another state refuses to cooperate with EPA on environmental justice
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the latest example of state pushback to civil-rights enforcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a Texas agency has pulled out of negotiations to resolve...
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Environmental impact targeted in new push against ‘Cop City’
Reading Time: 4 minutes Opponents of the developing Atlanta Public Safety Training Center have adopted a new strategy to stop the so-called “Cop City” from being built. Activists filed a complaint with...
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The decades-long fight in a community treated as a dumping ground
Reading Time: 9 minutes Protecting people’s health from environmental hazards, Maricela Mares-Alatorre and her family found out the hard way, is a never-ending fight. She was in high school in the...
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