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From phys.org
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Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed. And those lingering impacts include some that run contrary to the goals of the policies.
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on Mon, 8PM
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From grist.org
The US no longer supports capping plastic production in UN treaty
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Environmental advocates understand the announcement as a reversal, calling it “absolutely devastating.”
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on Tue, 12AM
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From oilandgaswatch.org
Plastics plants dump 1,4-dioxane and other pollutants with no EPA limits
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In South Carolina, a plastics manufacturing plant called Alpek Polyester Columbia dumped about 30,000 pounds of a chemical, 1,4-dioxane, into the Congaree River last year, with no limits on the pollutant – a likely carcinogen – in the plant’s discharge permit. The Alpek plant was the largest...
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