Thursday, March 5, 2026

Tag: platic pollution

The EPA faces questions about its approval of a plastic-based fuel...

That risk is 250,000 times greater than the level usually considered acceptable by the EPA division that approves new chemicals, and it’s higher than the lifetime risk of cancer for current smokers.

Can we fix recycling? Some companies are trying

"People want to do the right thing, but we have to make it convenient—to make it frictionless. And that's what we aim to do."

Ocean plastic projected to triple within seven years

"The sea bed is teeming with life. We really need a mission to planet ocean – it's the last frontier."

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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues

"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”

Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs

The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.

Ramadan under the blockade: The women of Havana’s only mosque

What will happen to the women living under the boot of the U.S. empire if women here sit back and merely wait for the next election cycle?

A First Lady in a New York Cell

One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.

Why guns?

From personal power to autocracy in Donald Trump's America