Taco Bell says it wants to recycle the 8 billion sauce packets it produces each year.

California is set to ban use of the "chasing arrows" recycling symbol on things that are not actually recycled. 

Three subsidiaries of San Francisco trash and recycling giant Recology are ordered to pay $36 million in fines for bribing city officials.

Maine and Oregon shift the burden of paying for recycling from consumers to manufacturers. 

The Alabama plant that makes PFAS-contaminated fast-food packaging emits the equivalent of a billion pounds of carbon dioxide each year, the equivalent of 125,000 cars.  

Coal company stocks are booming due to increased demand. The Energy Information Administration forecasts that coal’s share of US electricity generation will increase from 20 percent last year to 24 percent in 2021.

Forty-eight of the world’s nations most vulnerable to climate change call for an “emergency pact” to prevent climate catastrophe. 

Vineyard Wind, the 800-megawatt wind project slated for the waters off Martha’s Vineyard, secures $2.3 billion in financing. The project is expected to come online in 2023. 

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth says that, rather than invest in solar or wind-energy projects, "We rather dividend it back to shareholders and let them plant trees."

The US Fish and Wildlife Service says that Endangered Species Act protection for the gray wolf “may be warranted,” the first step toward possibly relisting it. 

Exposure to traffic noise results in a higher risk of dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease.

Amsterdam is building an underwater parking garage with room for 4,000 bikes.  

After getting a $95 parking ticket, a San Francisco woman sues the city for $50 million, alleging that the chalk mark on her tire is a violation of her Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure. 

As flames from the KNP Complex Fire push within a mile of five of the 10 largest sequoia trees on Earth, fire crews in Sequoia National Park are wrapping the trees in aluminum insulation in a desperate effort to protect them.

In a long-awaited decision, the National Park Service will allow private ranches and dairies to continue to operate at California’s Point Reyes National Seashore despite conflicts with herds of tule elk.  

California’s famous Squaw Valley Ski Resort changes its offensive name to Palisades Tahoe.

Russia announces the completion of Nord Stream 2, its massive gas pipeline to Germany. 

One out of every 500 Americans has died of COVID.

Eighteen of the 20 gorillas in the Atlanta Zoo test positive for the coronavirus. 

Five zebras escape from a farm and wander around the suburban streets of Prince George’s County, Maryland.

Officials in Siskiyou County in Northern California can’t block water deliveries to Hmong farmers’ marijuana grows, says a federal judge.