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Post category: petrochemicals
Mar 29
2024
2024
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A vision for safer, more sustainable food contact materials
The world is working on ending plastic pollution through a new plastics treaty. If the treaty gets the science right, it has enormous potential to detoxify the planet. But right now, this goal is far beyond reach because there is an elephant in the room: plastic chemicals. . . .
Feb 20
2024
2024
Guest commentary
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Under the Surface: What does the fracking boom mean for our health?
Over the last seven years, as I traveled the United States reporting on the oil and gas industry, I have learned a disturbing and little-considered fact: a lot more comes to the surface at a well than just the oil and gas. Each year the industry produces billions of tons of waste, much of it toxic and radioactive. The fracking boom has only worsened the problem. So where does it all go? . . .
