The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, renewing long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation’s most sensitive wilderness areas.
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Chevron owns this city’s news site. Many stories aren’t told
Chevron operates a major refinery in Richmond, Calif. It also owns the city’s dominant news site, putting its own spin on events, and runs similar sites in Texas and Ecuador.
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Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf
Recycling “does not solve the solid waste problem,” the head of a plastics trade group said in 1989, around the time the industry was launching its recycling campaign.
