EPA OKs California EV mandate and tailpipe emission rule

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EPA OKs California EV mandate and tailpipe emission rule

December 18, 2024

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday signed off on two major California clean air rules designed to reduce pollution ...

A bar chart comparing virgin plastic use and packaging goals for Global Commitment signatories versus the global plastic packaging market. Signatories have made more progress than the market, but they're still far behind their 2025 goals.

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After 2 years, Coca-Cola’s promise to scale up reusable packaging is dead todayheadline

December 13, 2024

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Despite growing public scrutiny and legal challenges over its use of plastic, Coca-Cola appears to be moving backwards on packaging ...

Business & Finance

What David Sacks as AI czar (with Elon Musk as wingman) could mean for OpenAI todayheadline

December 7, 2024

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Plastic pollution clogging a river, with trees in background

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100+ countries want an ambitious plastics treaty. Oil producers are getting in the way. todayheadline

December 3, 2024

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What was supposed to be the final round of United Nations negotiations for a global plastics treaty ended without an ...

Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director, speaking at a lectern. Her image is projected onto a screen, and in the foreground is a large audience watching her.

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At final round of plastic treaty talks, production cap hangs in the balance todayheadline

November 27, 2024

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Just a day after the conclusion of the United Nations’ annual climate conference in Azerbaijan, diplomats began convening in Busan, ...

COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev projected onto a screen, with audience in foreground

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At COP29, new rules for carbon markets made them even more controversial todayheadline

November 26, 2024

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Delegates closed out this year’s United Nations climate conference on Saturday after agonizing debates on the right way to deliver ...

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The US no longer supports capping plastic production in UN treaty

November 19, 2024

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The Biden administration has backtracked from supporting a cap on plastic production as part of the United Nationsâ€ global plastics ...

Three plastic bottles of Pepsi on a store shelf, side by side.

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New Yorkâ€s plastic lawsuit against PepsiCo has been dismissed. Whatâ€s next?

November 18, 2024

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Late last month, the New York state Supreme Court granted a request from PepsiCo to dismiss a plastic pollution lawsuit ...

Us & Canada

Editorial: How California leaders can protect the environment from another Trump administration

November 17, 2024

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Of the many ways Donald Trump’s return to the White House promises to upend federal policy, few are more predictable ...

Science & Environment

Trump picked Lee Zeldin to lead the EPA. What will that mean for environmental policy?

November 13, 2024

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After president-elect Donald Trump announced Lee Zeldin as his nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, the former Republican representative ...

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