environmentalism

Are Bans on Plastic Shopping Bags Being Reversed Because of COVID-19?

Citing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, at least three states took steps to walk back bans on plastic shopping bags, while environmental advocacy groups accused the plastics industry of seizing on the virus for their own purposes. In late March 2020, Massachusetts and New Hampshire suspended their state bans on the plastic bags, while a …

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Will Earth Lose Two-Thirds of its Animals by 2020?

In early March 2019, a Facebook user shared a screenshot (archived here) of a tweet sent the same day, which admonished followers of a scandal involving the Kardashian family. That post claimed that while readers were busy on Kardashian gossip, two-thirds of the Earth’s animals were in the process of being eradicated by 2020: lmagine if …

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