Mother Jones
The East Palestine Train Fiasco Lays Bare a Far Bigger Crisis
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The plastic crisis looks like a sperm whale filling up its stomach with bags. It looks like cucumbers and bananas—which have perfectly good skins of their own—wrapped in single-use plastic. But before all that, it looks like a burning train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio. Before […]