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Emily Sanders is the Senior Reporter for ExxonKnews, a reporting project of the Center for Climate Integrity. She covers fossil fuel industry disinformation and efforts to obstruct climate action — as well as the growing movement to hold powerful industry players accountable, in the courts and beyond. Emily has investigative reporting training from Columbia Journalism School. Her writing has appeared in Atmos, DeSmog, The Lever, Jacobin, Truthout, Earth Island Journal, and more.

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This story is a partnership between Grist and ExxonKnews, a reporting project covering the fossil fuel industry.

Nearly five years ago, the United States Department of Energy, or DOE, began an unusual partnership with the country’s largest lobbying group for the plastics industry. 

In a memorandum of understanding with a plastics industry trade association called the American Chemistry Council, or ACC, the Energy Department pledged to “collaborate on the development of innovative plastics recycling technologies and strengthen the domestic plastics supply chain.”

According to a press release, the collaboration would involve research into “novel collection technologies” to keep plastics out of waterways, as well as new types of plastic that are “inherently designed for recycling.” But perhaps the most significant part of the agreement referred to research on so-called “advanced recycling” — a suite of technologies also known as “chemical recycling” that are favored by the ACC and other industry groups, and int... Read more

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