Daily Archives: July 20, 2025

Climate Moment Jury orders Chevron to pay $745 million for costal damages A jury in Louisiana, in the U.S., has ruled that Chevron, a major oil and gas company, must pay a local government about $745 million to help restore wetlands that the jury said the energy company had harmed for decades. The verdict is likely to influence similar lawsuits filed by other parishes, or counties, in the state against other energy giants and their possible settlement negotiations. A contribution from the Reevaluation Counseling Community

by Louise Mann If collected recyclables are not sold and made into new product, your recycling program is a sham. Tossing collected recycling into the landfill IS legal in Arkansas, if only one fee is charged for both recycling and garbage collection. Might want to check your garbage/recycling bill. Don’t you want your recycling collected in a way that keeps the recyclables marketable? Dirty MRF is a system whereby garbage and recycling are placed in the same can that you set out. And then tossed into the same compartment on the truck. Supposedly the recyclables are separated at a Materials […]