Tom Pelton

1 week ago | baltimorefishbowl.com | Tom Pelton

Climate change is such a complex and sprawling issue, it’s hard to compress it down to just one problem, let alone one country or continent. For this reason, discussions about the climate tend toward the abstract – like meeting the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2100. But most people just don’t care about abstractions like this and so the climate remains a low priority for most Americans. Mike Tidwell has a solution to this problem.

Apr 18, 2024 | l8r.it | Tom Pelton

Point Township, Pennsylvania -- A plan to build what would have been the largest petrochemical plant in the U.S. dedicated to breaking down plastic waste into chemicals for resale was cancelled today after a local township board voted unanimously to “strenuously and unequivocally” oppose Encina’s proposed plant on the banks of the Susquehanna River.

Apr 18, 2024 | shorturl.at | Tom Pelton

Point Township, Pennsylvania -- A plan to build what would have been the largest petrochemical plant in the U.S. dedicated to breaking down plastic waste into chemicals for resale was cancelled today after a local township board voted unanimously to “strenuously and unequivocally” oppose Encina’s proposed plant on the banks of the Susquehanna River.

Mar 21, 2024 | l8r.it | Tom Pelton

The Formosa Point Comfort plastics manufacturing plant on the Texas Gulf Coast, which makes polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and other chemicals out of oil and gas, received nearly $69 million in school district tax breaks over a decade, with the money flowing to the Taiwan-based plastics company instead of children in Texas.

May 4, 2023 | news.oilandgaswatch.org | Tom Pelton

Sometime this summer, EPA is expected to rule on a petition by Louisiana for state authority to issue permits for carbon dioxide waste disposal wells that would allow petrochemical companies to capture the climate-warming pollutant from their smokestacks and bury it underground.