Schuyler Mitchell is a writer, editor, and fact-checker from North Carolina, currently based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in the Intercept, the Baffler, Labor Notes, Los Angeles Magazine, and elsewhere.
A proposed solution to the plastic pollution crisis, “chemical recycling,” is at best unproven and more likely disastrous for the environment. The EPA just removed the only regulatory obstacle to its widespread adoption.
Kamala Harris has come out against a fracking ban, in line with the media narrative that voters in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania love fracking. But public support for the environmentally destructive practice in the state is thin and on the decline.