Hiroko Tabuchi

Amazon Says It Will Stop Using Plastic Pillows in Shipments

They’re a familiar sight in Amazon packages: The plastic air pillows designed to keep products safe in transit, but that…

1 week ago

There’s an Explosion of Plastic Waste. Big Companies Say ‘We’ve Got This.’

By 2025, Nestle promises not to use any plastic in its products that isn’t recyclable. By that same year, L’Oreal…

3 months ago

Methane From Landfills Is a Big Driver of Climate Change, Study Says

They’re vast expanses that can be as big as towns: open landfills where household waste ends up, whether it’s vegetable…

3 months ago

Court Temporarily Halts S.E.C.’s New Climate Rules

A federal court on Friday temporarily halted new rules from the Securities Exchange Commission that require public companies to disclose…

4 months ago

U.S. Approves $500 Million for Bahrain Oil Project, Despite Opposition

A federal bank that finances projects overseas voted Thursday to put $500 million toward an oil and gas project in…

4 months ago

Mercury Pollution Is Falling, but Not in Tuna. This Might Be Why.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the horrors of mercury poisoning in Japan and elsewhere shocked the world into curbing releases…

4 months ago

Bank of America Reverses Its Pledge Not to Finance Fossil Fuels

Two years ago, Bank of America won kudos from climate activists for saying it would no longer finance new coal…

5 months ago

A Potentially Huge Supreme Court Case Has a Hidden Conservative Backer

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on Wednesday that, on paper, are about a group of commercial fishermen…

6 months ago

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