Nine in 10 Filipinos support the ban on single-use plastic, according to environmental group Greenpeace Philippines.
Plastic is ubiquitous. It's in the clothes we wear, wrapped around the food we eat and in the toothpaste we use. It floats in the oceans and litters the snow on Mount Everest.
(The Center Square) – The Illinois Senate is advancing a measure to prohibit certain hotels from using single-use plastic bottles by 2026. State Sen. Laura Fine, D-Glenview, said her Senate Bill 2960 is about encouraging a change in behavior to prohibit hotels from using single use plastics. “Right now, we are putting so much plastic pollution into our waterways that it will no longer be safe for aquatic consumption and then human consumption,” Fine said. ...
In honor of Earth Month, we at the Center for Environmental Health invite you to join us as we launch a blog series of “connecting the dots” blogs and thought pieces that offer insight into how areas of our work serve as pieces of the solutions puzzle, as our entire movement battles the harmful effects […]
Paper bags could soon return to the LCBO following a request from Ontario’s premier. In a letter to the CEO of the Crown corporation, Doug Ford says he wants “immediate steps” taken to reverse the reusable bag policy. “At a time when many Ontario families are already struggling to make ends meet, every additional expense counts,” the premier wrote in a letter dated April 7. “That includes charging customers for reusable bags instead of the free paper bags that the LCBO previously...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has prohibited government officials and personnel from using sirens and blinkers, similar to the no "wang-wang" policy implemented by late President Benigno Aquino III.
Pennsylvania is on its way to becoming the next state to ban the use of cellphones while driving.
Experts say the measure could presage another major crackdown in Xinjiang.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology AI was supposed to make police bodycams better. What happened? When police departments first started buying and deploying bodycams in the wake of the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a…
New California legislation seeks to permanently ban paraquat, a powerful and widely used weedkiller that has been linked to Parkinson's disease and other serious health issues. Assembly Bill 1963, introduced recently by Assemblymember Laura Friedman (D-Glendale), would sunset the use of paraquat beginning in January 2026. The herbicide, which is described by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as highly toxic, is regularly sprayed on almonds, grapes, cotton and other crops in the state....
Anouk (48) and Tino Martin (40) have collaborated on a new song. The song is titled “Before You Know It,” the singer shares on the “Noah’s Ark Label” podcast. “Before I knew it, that song was out of my nose, so I had to change that.” “He sent me a song and I thought: ‘This […]
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