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The Titans of Plastic

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Advocacy, Climate Change, Fossil Fuel, Material, Microplastics, Packaging, Plastic Industry, Plastic Packaging, Plastic Pollution, Plastic Production, Policy, Pollutants, Single-Use Plastic, Toxic Chemicals, Waste, Waste Trade

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In a joint feature story for Environmental Health News and Sierra Magazine, journalist Kristina Marusic lays out the petrochemical and plastic industries’ colonization of Pennsylvania, use of fracked gas to make plastic, and the resulting injustices and environmental degradation that harms communities and helps drive the climate crisis.

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