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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Oil and chemical companies who created a high-profile alliance to end plastic pollution have produced 1,000 times more new plastic in five years than the waste they diverted from the environment, according to new data obtained by Greenpeace. The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) was set up in 2019 by a group of companies which include ExxonMobil, Dow, Shell, TotalEnergies, and ChevronPhillips, some of the world’s biggest producers of plastic.

Flying during the Thanksgiving holiday is likely to be terrible—as usual. The lobbying group Airlines for America anticipates a record 31 million people will take to the air to visit family and friends for the holiday. But no matter how terrible the flying experience might be this season, it will probably be as good as it gets for a long time to come, as the second Trump administration plans to take a wrecking ball to commercial airline regulation. Under Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the federal Department of Transportation has made a priority of tackling some of the biggest gripes Americans have had about air travel.

Jason Kelce is ready to blitz the ranks of TV’s late-night hosts in a limited-run wee-hours program on ESPN. “They Call It Late Night With Jason Kelce” will air on five consecutive overnights heading into late-season NFL football weekends. The series will run at 1 a.m. on Saturdays starting January 4 on ESPN, with the […]

If it had been released just two years ago, “Bonhoeffer” might have come across as simply the latest in a long line of respectable but predictable period dramas about brave Germans who dared to stand up to the Nazi regime. Today, however, the movie feels more like an uncomfortably timely cautionary tale with unsettling echoes […]

The U. S.’s two satellite TV providers aren’t getting hitched anymore, at least anytime soon. DirecTV on Thursday formally announced that it was nixing the agreement with EchoStar to buy Dish Network. The deal is being terminated effective as of 11:59 p.m. ET on Nov. 22, DirecTV said. DirecTV’s official termination of the agreement follows Dish […]