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This is the scientific research Ted Cruz calls “woke”

Agnel Philip, Lisa Song
Colorful Plastic Bottle Caps 655465824 (Getty Images/Deanna Kelly)

The plastics industry’s wish list for a second Trump Administration

Lisa Song
Worker Observing Processing of Waste at Recycling Facility (Getty Images/AzmanJaka)

Biden EPA rejects plastics industry’s fuzzy math that misleads customers about recycled content

Lisa Song
Engineer at recycling center (Getty Images/Pramote Polyamate)

When is “recyclable” not really recyclable? When the plastics industry gets to define the word

Lisa Song
Plastic bottles and other single-use plastic waste are seen floating in Khlong Toey canal. (Matt Hunt/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The delusion of advanced plastic recycling using pyrolysis

Lisa Song
Meliandou, Guinea. (Jane Hahn for the Washington Post via Getty Images)

The next deadly pandemic is just a forest clearing away — but we’re not even trying to prevent it

Caroline Chen, Irena Hwang, Al Shaw, Lisa Song, Robin Fields
A cemetery stands in stark contrast to the chemical plants that surround it October 15, 2013. 'Cancer Alley' is one of the most polluted areas of the United States and lies along the once pristine Mississippi River that stretches some 80 miles from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, where a dense concentration of oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and other chemical industries reside alongside suburban homes. (Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

EPA finally calls out environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley

Lisa Song, Lylla Younes
MARCH 30: U.S. President Donald Trump takes a new COVID-19 test kit developed by Abbott Labs out of its box during the daily coronavirus briefing at the Rose Garden of the White House on March 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Rapid testing for the coronavirus is less accurate than the government wants to admit

Lisa Song
Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump’s EPA refuses to reduce pollutants linked to coronavirus deaths

Lisa Song, Lylla Younes
Donald Trump| A massive group of protesters sit on the ground at Foley Square (Getty Images/Salon)

Politicians and business interests ignored health officials to control reopening. Cases exploded

Lisa Song, Mollie Simon
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You might be buying a hand sanitizer that won’t work for coronavirus

Marshall Allen, Lisa Song
A layer of pollution can be seen hovering over Los Angeles, California (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

The word nobody wanted to say at the UN Climate Action Summit

Lisa Song
This photo provided by California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection shows smoke billowing from a wildfire near Lake Nacimiento in San Luis Obispo County, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016. (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection via AP) (AP)

California legislators say yes to potential use of forestry offsets

Lisa Song
Morning joggers make their way along the beach in Manhattan Beach, Calif. on Thursday, May 28, 2015. Popular beaches along nearly 7 miles of Los Angeles-area coastline are off-limits to surfing and swimming after balls of tar washed ashore. The beaches along south Santa Monica Bay appeared virtually free of oil Thursday morning after an overnight cleanup, but officials aren't sure if more tar will show up. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) (AP)

“A never-ending commitment”: The high cost of preserving vulnerable beaches

Lisa Song, Al Shaw
Flood water surround homes damaged by Hurricane Harvey, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, in Rockport, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Flood thy neighbor: Who stays dry and who decides?

Lisa Song, Patrick Michels, Al Shaw
(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Inside a secretive lobbying effort to deregulate federal levees

Lisa Song, Patrick Michels, Alex Heeb
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump’s paradise disappears: As seas around Mar-a-Lago rise, budget cuts could damage local climate work

Lisa Song
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

As Trump slashes EPA budget, worry over the fate of an agency doing similar work

Lisa Song