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The EPA inadvertently forgot to mention that an approved jet fuel plastic causes cancer in 1 out of every 4 people exposed to it & also forgot to note an approved marine fuel plastic causes cancer in 100% of people exposed to it until the newspapers found out www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
The decision comes after a ProPublica investigation revealed that the EPA had found that one of the fuels had a cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than the agency usually considers acceptabl...
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Nearly 100,000 Asheville residents may not have access to water for weeks. This is a public health disaster.
Asheville may not have its water system repaired for weeks; communities across region under boil water advisories.
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ExxonMobil Accused of âDeceptivelyâ Promoting Chemical Recycling as a Solution for the Plastics Crisis The CA attorney generalâs lawsuit, which cites ProPublica reporting, alleges that products made with Exxonâs process contain only a small fraction of the recycled plastic that they claim to have.
The California attorney generalâs lawsuit, which cites ProPublica reporting, alleges that products made with Exxonâs process contain only a small fraction of the recycled plastic that they claim to ha...
As a GBBO enthusiast, I fear for the contestants this season. If episode one included a technical challenge with *no* instructions, what more can they expect?! Build your own oven out of bricks? Measurements written in algebraic equations? A scavenger hunt to find the ingredients?
USAID gave Blinken a 17-page memo describing instances of Israeli interference with aid, including killing aid workers, bombing ambulances and hospitals, and holding up or turning away trucks full of supplies.
Blinken told Congress, âWe do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restrictingâ aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development and others had de...
Well Iâm dead. I watched Slow Horses last nightâŚ
For the first time, the federal government took an official action on mass balance â the wonky math that allows companies to label plastic products as 30% recycled plastic even if it contains less than 1% recycled content. www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
The plastics industry uses a controversial accounting method to inflate the recycled content it advertises in products. A new EPA policy wonât allow it for any products it endorses as a âSafer Choice....
The company "can market Tritan Renew as 'up to 50 percent recycled plastic,' even if it has little recycled material in it, because *something* it manufactured contained those recycled chemical building blocks." Yup, that's mass balance in a nutshell. www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/b...
A green accounting method called âmass balanceâ certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic â just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim.