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Transatlantic trade drives pollution – 7 Dec 2021

Dec 07, 2021

The transatlantic trade in petrochemicals — the fossil fuel-derived building blocks of plastic pollution — is booming

In the midst of a mounting climate emergency, this is not the kind of economic cooperation the world needs. As the European Union (EU) claims to step up its climate commitments, its pivot to fracked gas produced in the United States as a source of feed stocks for its plastic industry threatens to undermine emissions reductions objectives and exacerbate plastic pollution

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