"Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually guaranteed to end up in landfills and incinerators."
"On a humid summer afternoon in July, about 40 minutes from Houston, children are running up and down the Texas coastline of Sylvan Beach. Families make camps for the day with coolers filled with drinks and snacks. It doesn’t take more than a few steps near the shore to realize plastics have overtaken the beach."
"Parts of the Arctic are enduring exceptionally high temperatures — up 30 to 40 degrees above normal — because of multiple intense heat domes."
"California has sharply cut its enforcement of heat-protection laws for outdoor laborers while extreme heat has intensified in recent years — endangering farmworkers, construction workers and others who toil in scorching temperatures — an investigation by the Los Angeles Times and Capital & Main has found."
"A US foundation associated with the oil company Shell has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to religious right and conservative organizations, many of which deny that climate change is a crisis, tax records reveal."
In Strasbourg, France, the Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe (CASE), the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) and the Council of Europe will host their second European Anti-SLAPP Conference as a hybrid event.
"The Mobile-Tensaw Delta — a lush, vibrant and surprisingly intact over 400-square-mile (1,036-square-kilometer) expanse of cypress swamps, oxbow lakes, marshland, hardwood stands and rivers — is teeming with more aquatic species than almost anywhere in North America."
"British energy giant Drax Global, already under scrutiny for running afoul of environmental laws in multiple states, has disclosed to the state of Louisiana that its wood pellet production facilities emit hazardous air pollutants above their permitted limits."
"President Biden will designate a national monument this week at the site of racist mob violence in 1908 in Springfield, Ill., the White House confirmed Wednesday."
"White House climate adviser John Podesta raised concerns about some elements of a bipartisan bill aimed at speeding up the nation’s energy projects Tuesday — and declined to say whether President Biden would sign it."
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[2] https://www.propublica.org/article/plastics-industry-redefine-recyclable-ftc-grocery-bags
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/plastic-pellets-known-nurdles-are-accumulating-along-texas-coasts
[4] https://www.ehn.org/microplastic-ocean-2668972010.html
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/record-setting-heat-waves-are-baking-arctic-region
[6] https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/08/13/heat-arctic-canada-alaska-norway-svalbard/
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/california-cuts-safety-enforcement-farmworkers-toil-extreme-heat
[8] https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-15/as-heat-rises-california-reduces-farmworker-oversite
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/shell-oil-non-profit-donated-anti-climate-groups-behind-project-2025
[10] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/15/shell-oil-project-2025-climate-crisis
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[13] https://apnews.com/article/alabama-mobile-tensaw-delta-conservation-climate-c8dcbc7cbbb4e6e1a1ced2f872010985
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[15] https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-drax-air-pollution-524bba156b9a4e5ffa55d8f5e9e1f9a0
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-designate-national-monument-site-illinois-race-riot
[17] https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4827517-springfield-race-riot-national-monument/
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/podesta-concerned-over-problematic-elements-permitting-reform-bill
[19] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4826395-biden-climate-adviser-permitting-reform-bill-concerns/
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