Climate Regulation
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![Plastic bottles in two side-by-side trash tubes]()
![Plastic bottles in two side-by-side trash tubes]()
The US only recycled about 5% of plastic waste last year
A new report highlights recycling's failure to keep up with growing volumes of plastic trash.
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![lots of cows packed into two aisles in a barn with hay in-between them. The cows are very crowded]()
![lots of cows packed into two aisles in a barn with hay in-between them. The cows are very crowded]()
In Wisconsin, small towns want more regulations for big farms
The state's agricultural lobby says local efforts to regulate CAFOs are illegal.
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![Attorney General Bonta speaks, surroundd by staff and with two garbage bags in front of him]()
![Attorney General Bonta speaks, surroundd by staff and with two garbage bags in front of him]()
California opens investigation into ‘decades-long plastics deception campaign’
The state's attorney general argues fossil fuel companies have long known recycling is a "myth."
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![A server hands a takeout container with a plastic fork sticking out of it to a woman]()
![A server hands a takeout container with a plastic fork sticking out of it to a woman]()
LA County bans throwaway dishes and cutlery
A new ordinance will require thousands of restaurants to use compostables or recyclables by 2023.
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![People float in inner tubes down Lakeshore Drive in Mandeville, Louisiana, which flooded in the wake of Hurricane Barry in July 2019.]()
![People float in inner tubes down Lakeshore Drive in Mandeville, Louisiana, which flooded in the wake of Hurricane Barry in July 2019.]()
FEMA’s new flood insurance system is sinking waterfront homeowners. That might be the point.
Premiums are ballooning in states like Florida and Louisiana — and adaptation measures won't bring costs back down.
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Biden: Federal agencies must consider climate impacts of infrastructure projects
The changes to the National Environmental Policy Act reverse Trump-era rollbacks, impacting projects from roads to railways to pipelines.
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![A crane lifts a section of pipeline into a trench]()
![A crane lifts a section of pipeline into a trench]()
CO2 pipelines are coming. A pipeline safety expert says we’re not ready.
Companies want to build pipelines to capture and store carbon, but a new report warns that regulators aren’t prepared.
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![Three containers filled with plastic waste]()
Rich countries are illegally exporting plastic trash to poor countries, data suggests
A watchdog group alleges "rampant" violations of international law.
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![EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited St. John and St. James parishes on a]()
![EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited St. John and St. James parishes on a]()
EPA to investigate racial discrimination in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’
Complaints allege that industrial facilities have discharged “excessive levels” of carcinogenic chemicals in a majority-Black community.
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![SEC chair Gary Gensler at Senate hearing]()
![SEC chair Gary Gensler at Senate hearing]()
New SEC rule requires companies to disclose how they’re approaching climate change
The proposed rule requires companies to disclose emissions — even, in some cases, scope 3 climate pollution stemming from their products.
