Last year I witnessed the impacts of plastic pollution on wildlife in Antarctica, one of the few places on earth that has been relatively untouched by human activity.
The Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife will come to order.
Plastics are also making climate change worse.
Certainly, single-use plastics have made life easier. But these materials come at a much higher cost than many would like to admit.
Plastic production is an environmental justice issue too.
the global life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from conventional plastics which were produced in 2015 were 1.8 billion metric tons of carbon...
It is imperative that the companies that manufacture and sell these products take ownership of their environmental impacts.
We think that runs counter to the promise of public transit, which creates a lot of good jobs in our communities, that supports other worker...
We would like to see the un-redacted pages, or an explanation of why they are being redacted.
A lot of the pages that we got looked like this--look at Slide 2. That doesn't make any sense.
But I would like to say--this is my time--that a simpler interpretation may be that the Administration wanted the leases renewed, regardless...