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Under pressure from activist investors, big brands agree to report and reduce plastics use
Shareholder advocacy groups have already won plastics-related concessions from companies including Disney, Hormel, and Choice Hotels.
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![Photo of Darren Woods, Exxon CEO, pointing a finger in front of a microphone]()
There’s a reason Exxon’s CEO says its emissions are your fault
Activist investors want the company to trim its biggest source of emissions. Exxon sees that as a threat.
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![Collage featuring warehouse worker carrying cardboard box off-gassing ethylene oxide]()
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An invisible chemical is poisoning thousands of unsuspecting warehouse workers
Medical supply warehouses can be a significant source of cancer-causing ethylene oxide emissions. Only one state is doing anything about it.
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![CHICAGO - FEB 12: The claws of a scrap handler machine prepares to move piles of scrap metal at General Iron Industries in Chicago, Illinois on FEB 12, 2011.]()
![CHICAGO - FEB 12: The claws of a scrap handler machine prepares to move piles of scrap metal at General Iron Industries in Chicago, Illinois on FEB 12, 2011.]()
Illinois EPA must revamp its permitting process after Chicago activists file civil rights complaint
“It shouldn't have to be this hard to get these common sense rules in place.”
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![An aerial view of the University of Arizona in Tucson from Getty Images.]()
![An aerial view of the University of Arizona in Tucson from Getty Images.]()
Cash-strapped University of Arizona says climate action can wait
Activists have spent years pushing the university to divest from fossil fuels. With a $177 million deficit, that may not happen.
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Petrochemical companies have known for 40 years that plastics recycling wouldn’t work
New documents show how they promoted it anyway.
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![A yellow signpost that reads Warning Gas Pipeline Millenium Pipeline standing against a snowy field bordered by a dark forest.]()
![A yellow signpost that reads Warning Gas Pipeline Millenium Pipeline standing against a snowy field bordered by a dark forest.]()
Hidden subsidies prop up New York’s fossil fuel industry
The state wants to phase out fossil fuels. Localities have given over a billion dollars in tax breaks to help keep them around.
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Top 5 takeaways of our investigation into state trust lands
A Grist investigation reveals how 14 public universities continue to benefit from extractive industries on stolen Indigenous land.
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How we investigated the land-grant university system
A methodology of our efforts to reveal how land-grant universities continue to profit from stolen Indigenous resources.
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How to conduct your own reporting and research on state trust lands
A guide to using Grist's database.
