BOSTON, MA. --On Thursday, an overwhelming bipartisan majority of the Massachusetts Senate voted to pass Senate Bill 2830, the Plastics Reduction Act. In a 38-2 vote, Senators agreed to pass the bill guaranteed to protect the environment by limiting the usage of wasteful single-use plastics.
SAN FRANCISCO — The fight to hold Coca-Cola accountable for misleading consumers will continue thanks to a district court judge's ruling on Monday. Judge Donato denied Coca-Cola’s attempt to dismiss a Sierra Club lawsuit, meaning that the suit will now move forward.
Un tren que arrastraba cinco vagones repletos de millones de libras de cloruro de vinilo se descarrilĂł cerca de la frontera entre Ohio y Pennsylvania, obligando a miles de residentes a evacuar.
​​​​​​​EAST PALESTINE, OH -- Late Friday evening, a Norfolk Southern Railway train carrying five cars containing millions of pounds of vinyl chloride -- a potent carcinogen used to make PVC pipes, upholstery, plastic kitchenware, and more -- derailed near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, prompting thousands of residents within a two-mile radius to evacuate. Exposure to vinyl chloride is linked to liver cancer and when burned, vinyl chloride produces acutely toxic gases including hydrochloric acid and phosgene.
SAN FRANCISCO – Today, the Sierra Club and its law firm Gutride Safier LLP jointly announced the filing of lawsuits against the Coca-Cola Company (bottler of Dasani), BlueTriton Brands (bottler of Arrowhead, Poland Spring, Deer Park, and Ozarka), and Niagara Bottling (bottler of Niagara and store brands) for misleading consumers by labeling their plastic bottles as “100% Recyclable.” The bottle labels are made of biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP), or “number 5 plastic,” which is not recyclable. In addition, while the bottles themselves are made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), or “number 1 plastic,” at least 28% of PET plastic that is deposited for recycling is unrecyclable due to contamination and processing loss. Most plastic bottles end up in landfills, incinerators, the ocean, rivers, or littered across the landscape.
Daelim Chemical USA LLC announced they will not move forward with their proposed PTT Global Chemical ethane cracker project
Today, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto came out in opposition to the continued buildout of polluting plastic and petrochemical facilities in Western Pennsylvania in favor of climate action.
As a result of a legal challenge to a massive proposed petrochemical facility in Belmont County, the company behind the project will implement several critical air pollution concerns that state regulators failed to address.
Shell’s facility is one of five proposed for the region that would put health, safety, and clean drinking water at risk
Oakland, CA— Sierra magazine’s July/August edition is now on newsstands and arriving at subscribers’ homes. Among other articles, the latest issue includes:
You Can’t Recycle Garbage: A cover story by Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes on what’s needed to reinvent the United States’ broken recycling system.
Today, over 125 people on land and 50 people on water gathered at the “No Methanol Land and Water Action Community Camp-Out” opposing the proposed fracked-gas-to-methanol refinery in Kalama, WA. Speakers called on the Washington Department of Ecology to deny the project, and thanked Governor Inslee for his recent opposition to the project.
Maryland is on the brink of becoming the first state to ban expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam food containers, as the State House passed a bill that would ban restaurants, grocery stores, and other food providers from using foam food containers because of their harmful impact on the environment.