Environmental advocates understand the announcement as a reversal, calling it “absolutely devastating.”

The Biden administration has backtracked from supporting a cap on plastic production as part of the United Nations’ global plastics treaty.

This represents a reversal of what the same groups were told at a similar briefing held in August, when Biden administration representatives raised hopes that the U.S. would join countries like Norway, Peru, and the United Kingdom in supporting limits on plastic production.

Nearly 70 countries, along with scientists and environmental groups, support the latter. They say it’s futile to mop up plastic litter while more and more of it keeps getting made.

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    3 days ago

    I personally don’t think “Fuck all voters” and recognize that it’s difficult. Generalizing won’t help but it’s also a fact that almost half of reliable voters in the USA just voted for the fascists

    I always thought it was ridiculous that the Democratic Party named itself that. Surely, in a democracy, that’s like calling your party “party”. Well no more, they really are the democratic party now.