Monday, September 28, 2026

Tag: waste management

Plastic waste cleanup alliance found producing 1,000 times more plastic than...

Investigation reveals Alliance to End Plastic Waste members produced 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up, raising serious concerns about industry greenwashing.

In our deeply unequal world, the garbage rises ever higher

On Everest and elsewhere,the rich are creating waste.

Methane emissions from food waste alarmingly accelerate climate crisis

As EPA reports highlight the staggering methane emissions from food waste, the U.S. grapples with an overlooked environmental hazard.

Instead of reshaping domestic waste management, US asks China to lift...

"We hope that the U.S. can reduce and manage hazardous waste and other waste of its own and take up more duties and obligations."

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A military pharmacy. Photo: U.S. Air Force / Airman Trevor Calvert

Secret Pfizer and Lilly contracts favor drugmakers over patients, records show

The deals let companies raise prices overseas while carving blockbuster obesity drugs out of required discounts.
Pope Leo XIV appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica. Photo: INFOWeather1 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Which spiritual and political issues will be the focus of Pope Leo XIV’s visit...

The trip lands months ahead of France's presidential campaign, timing that echoes John Paul II's first visit to the country in 1980.

How lab-grown meat could bring an end to needless animal cruelty

Lab-grown meat is a sustainable and ethical alternative to traditional meat. It offers the same taste and texture while reducing animal suffering, environmental impact, and health risks.
The SEC's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

SEC votes to propose scrapping rule that lets shareholders force a vote

Investor advocates call the move a threat to eight decades of shareholder oversight

Why I resigned: Meet Tariq Habash, first Biden appointee to quit over US-backed Israeli...

“It was untenable to work for and represent an administration and president that put conditions on my own humanity, that didn’t believe that Palestinian lives were equal to the lives of other people."