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United States · United StatesA newly unearthed 1974 letter from DuPont’s then-chairman reveals the company knew its plastic products could not be recycled, even as the industry later promoted recycling to fend off regulation.Rebecca John reports for DeSmog.In short:The 1974 correspondence shows top DuPont executive Charles Brelsford McCoy rejecting a bicentennial recycling pilot, saying the firm’s plastics were unrecoverable once mixed with additives.The document lands as n…See the Story
DuPont Letter Shows Plastics Industry Dismissed Recycling as Viable Solution in 1974
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Keir Starmer · WhitehavenKeir Starmer’s Labour government is being sued by investors represented by a Conservative MP over court decisions to quash the now abandoned Cumbrian coal mine. West Cumbria Mining (WCM) developers withdrew planning application from the site near Whitehaven in April, after the High Court found that the planning approval for UK’s first deep coal mine in more than 30 years – granted by the previous Conservative administration – had been unlawful.F…See the Story
UK Government to be Sued in ‘Secret Corporate Court’ by Coal Firm Represented by Tory MP
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