by Mike Ludwig | Aug 13, 2026 | Drinking Water, EPA, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Microplastics, Nanoplastic, Nanoplastics, News, Plastic, Plastic Pollution, plastic waste, plastics, Pollution, Public Health, Regulation, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump Administration, UN, Water
If you’ve ever looked at a disposable bottle of water with suspicion before tossing it into a bin, you’re far from alone. On August 8, leading scientists across globe published an editorial in The Lancet warning there is “strong evidence” that plastics harm human health and natural ecosystems at every stage of production and consumption — from fracking for the fossil fuels used to make plastics…
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by Joseph Winters | Jul 6, 2026 | Banks, Climate Crisis, Coal, Fossil Fuels, Net Zero, News Analysis, Oil and Gas Industry, plastics
For the past two years, more than a dozen major banks have been not only reneging on their climate commitments, they’ve been actively making the crisis worse. In 2024 and 2025, during the leadup to President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, all six of the nation’s largest banks abandoned the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a voluntary climate coalition, precipitating the Alliance’s complete…
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