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Joseph Winters is a contributing writer from Grist.org.

Recreational Equipment Inc (REI) sports and outdoors equipment store (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

REI will ban “forever chemicals” from clothes and cookware in 2024

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NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 27: With One World Trade Center behind it, a subway train moves along the F/G line in Brooklyn, February 27, 2019 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Biden administration unveils roadmap for a greener, more equitable transportation sector

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Garbage, pollution (Getty Images)

England finally joins Europe in banning single-use plastic foodware

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A man holding a non-stick pan with a damaged coating (Getty Images/Elena Gurova)

After years of pressure, 3M will stop making ‘forever chemicals’

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An empty classroom (Getty/ martinedoucet)

Study: Biology textbooks aren’t keeping up with climate science

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An exterior view of an Amazon fulfillment center. (Gabe Ginsberg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Amazon’s plastic packaging waste grew 18% in 2021, report says

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Plastic bottles and polystyrene floating in sea (Rosemary Calvert)

California’s two largest cities ban plastic foam

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Recreational Equipment Inc (REI) sports and outdoors equipment store (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

As the outdoor industry ditches ‘forever chemicals,’ REI lags behind

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Egyptian volunteers arrange sacks with plastic waste to build the world's largest plastic pyramid on September 17, 2022 in Giza, Egypt. (Fadel Dawod/Getty Images)

Experts say COP27’s ‘plastic waste pyramid’ is focusing on the wrong solution

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Garbage, pollution (Getty Images)

The plastics industry says its bags are recyclable. California’s attorney general wants proof.

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A woman depositing a plastic bottle in a recycling bin (Getty Images/Andrew Fox)

380 million tons of plastic are made every year. None of it is truly recyclable

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Plastic bottles and polystyrene floating in sea (Rosemary Calvert)

All that plastic in the ocean is a climate change problem, too

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Plastic bottles and polystyrene floating in sea (Rosemary Calvert)

Inside the industry push to label your yogurt cup ‘recyclable’

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Ribbon cutting ceremony held at Farragut Elementary School in Culver City, California for switching on the school districts new 750kw solar array built at the school on February 04, 2014 (Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Schools are harnessing solar power in record numbers

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USA, California, Los Angeles, traffic on the freeway (Getty Images)

Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills

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Traffic on the northbound and the southbound lanes of the Interstate 405 freeway near Los Angeles International Aiprort (Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

Against federal guidance, states plan to expand highways

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces the co-founding of The Climate Pledge at the National Press Club on September 19, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Amazon)

The problem with corporate pledges to protect abortion access and the climate

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A woman depositing a plastic bottle in a recycling bin (Getty Images/Andrew Fox)

California opens investigation into plastics deception campaign

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Cars sit abandoned on the flooded Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx following a night of heavy wind and rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida on September 02, 2021 in New York City. Numerous people were killed in New York and tornadoes did heavy damage to parts of New Jersey as the evening storm caught many off guard with the severity of its rain and wind and flooding. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

It’s raining harder than ever. New research says climate change is to blame

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Garbage, pollution (Getty Images)

LA County bans throwaway dishes and cutlery

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Garbage, pollution (Getty Images)

Rich countries are illegally exporting plastic trash to poor countries

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As Russia attacks Ukraine, experts weigh European “renaissance” for nuclear energy

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President Joe Biden addresses reporters at a press gaggle. (Getty Images)

Biden administration slammed for funding “false” plastics solutions

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Close up of test tubes with toxic labels (Getty Images)

8 newly flagged substances that could give you cancer

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