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10/28/2018 / By Lance D Johnson

Are bioplastics really as eco-friendly as they’re touted to be?

Approximately 165 million tons of petroleum-based plastic now pollute the ocean. Another nine million tons of plastic are added to the seas each year. Only nine percent of plastic is recycled. It takes at least 500 years for traditional plastic to decompose, as toxic chemicals break down and leach into the environment. In the rush […]

02/28/2018 / By JD Heyes

Finally: Trump’s EPA director, Scott Pruitt, begins rolling back “weaponization” of his agency that was used to trample property rights

When it became clear that Donald J. Trump would win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, no shortage of establishment GOP types attempted to convince his supporters that the billionaire businessman and real estate mogul was no Ronald Reagan. Last August pretend conservative Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona — one of Trump’s most vociferous critics (who […]

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