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James Karst, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana: We take a product that used to get sent to the landfill, but is very useful in slowing coastal land loss, and we put it back into the water, where it belongs. Roby Chavez: James Karst works with the coalition. He says the ...
... the outcome of five days of U.N. talks in Paris on plastic pollution, but expressed concern that the petroleum industry and some governments would water down the eventual treaty. Most plastic is made from fossil fuels. Delegates at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for Plastics agreed Friday evening to produce ...
... and daughter, and says an acre of land without water sells for $1,000, about a fifth of what it would sell for with a water right attached. There are other ways to improve efficiency, but money is still often a barrier. Wastewater recycling is growing across the region, albeit ...
... of a mile of roadway. The water had rushed off the hillsides had so much force that it bent road signs. “I’ve never seen water like this,” Jackson said. In Knott County, Teresa Perry Reynolds’ home was inundated with water and mud. She and her husband would have taken ...
Han-ray Jahn: Huge amounts of water are used to like produce a single yard of fabric or especially in dyes and processing and agriculture to like cotton is a pretty like water hungry plant. Isabella Jibilian: And he says not too many people know that polyester comes from drilling ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Interior Department said Wednesday it will phase out sales of plastic water bottles and other single-use products at national parks and on other public lands over the next decade, targeting a major source of U.S. pollution. An order issued by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland calls ...
... and industry sectors must make rapid transitions to significantly reduce fossil fuel use by transitioning to alternative fuel sources, becoming more energy efficient and prioritizing recycling and reusing materials while minimizing waste. This helps toward the ultimate goal of net-zero carbon dioxide emissions — the point at which the global ...
... meet the demand of their audiences and their clients, the artists. Tom Casciato: One of REVERB’s specialties is asking fans to donate for refillable water bottles, then let them fill up at free water stations instead of buying hordes of single-use bottles that might go from the show ...
... But I can pull that out and make sugars out of it. And once I have it as a sugar, I can put it in water and it dissolves. And so from there, I can do the chemistry using our catalysts. And once I make a molecule from the sugar ...
... 50 years might be stalled—or even reversed—by actions the EPA has taken during the Trump administration to weaken air pollution rules and enforcement. Water pollutionPerhaps the most emblematic moment of the crisis that afflicted U.S. waterways was the fire that erupted on the Cuyahoga River on June ...
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