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Climate politics, Pogo edition Will an old comic strip expression define upcoming global climate talks?
Climate pollution from plastics to outpace coal emissions in US by 2030, report finds The petrochemical industry has found a new market for fossil fuels: Plastics.
Californians living within miles of oil and gas wells have toxic air "For many years, communities have been complaining about how oil drilling in their neighborhoods is harmful. Now we have numbers to back that up."
LISTEN: Carlos Gould on global energy poverty and indoor air pollution "Air pollution affects a number of health outcomes, but for children in particular those impacts are so severe."
Ocean plastic pollution Too much plastic is ending up in the ocean — and making its way back onto our dinner plates.
Diesel trucks are causing environmental injustice across US cities Using satellite data, researchers found that poor communities of color are highly exposed to toxic nitrogen dioxide pollution, largely due to diesel truck traffic.
