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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The UK government ceasing automatically to support almost anything the government of Israel does is a major shift. The next step should be to rescind the ban on #PalestineAction, to stop treating protesters as terrorists, and to acknowledge that those seeking to disrupt a genocide may have a point.
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Will Payne @willpayne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Good to see our government finally taking some action against the genocidal Israeli extremists. More must be done, but this is a good start.
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UK accuses Israeli ‘terrorists’ of ethnic cleansing in West Bank with government backing
In strongest condemnation ever by UK government, Ed Miliband announces sweeping sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements
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Will Payne @willpayne.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If we're actually going to solve the climate crisis then we need to start thinking about prosecuting public figures who say things like this. He's a climate criminal. Ignoring reality whilst spreading dangerous propaganda. People like Tice are a risk to our future.
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Reform’s Tice says people should stop fighting climate crisis and ‘enjoy’ heat
Deputy leader says it is ‘arrogant’ to try to halt global heating, despite UK being left reeling by summer firewave
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
There's a simple, fair and effective means of funding politics, which ensures that voters count and money doesn't. MPs: please stop messing about with proposals for donation caps, and press for a proper, democratic funding system. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Political donations are poison to our democracy – but there’s an easy antidote to that | George Monbiot
As revelations about Reform UK’s donors emerge, it’s clear that increasingly complex forms of patronage can’t be regulated effectively. We need a clean sweep, says columnist George Monbiot
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
It's just one long stream of BS from these fossil fuel-backed clowns. Adopting their policies would destroy a million jobs (see next post) while creating almost none in return. Total environmental and social vandalism. The absolute state of "conservatism". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Populist and rightwing figures take aim at Ed Miliband and UK net zero policies at ‘anti-woke Davos’
Kemi Badenoch, who joined US anti-abortion activists and European far-right parties at ARC, described energy secretary as a ‘villain’
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2026
++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
“The government & judicial system treat far-right terrorism more leniently than leftwing dissent… It might be a nominally Labour government. But this is rightwing authoritarianism” - spot on as ever from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👇
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The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy? | George Monbiot
The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The Court of Appeal judgement on Palestine Action is frankly bonkers. It says PA is not "a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open." Right: the arson, bombings, slashings etc were all planned in open meetings in Parliament Square 🙄🧵
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Dannyboy wildlife @dannyboywildlife.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
White porcupine
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Consistent humanism means opposing the genocide in Gaza, AND antisemitism. It means opposing the US/Israeli invasion of Iran AND the Iranian regime's murder of its own people. It means opposing the US/UK invasion of Iraq AND the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It means confronting violence everywhere.
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Will Payne @willpayne.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
You have to be so naive to think reform are going to change anything for the better
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Will Payne @willpayne.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A strange heaviness lingers on this warm delightful day in London. As I was on my run earlier, I couldn't help but think it shouldn't be this warm in April. The climate crisis creeps closer everyday.
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Will Payne @willpayne.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"That’s deregulation for you. It’s yet another instance of successive governments’ bizarrely lopsided version of “fiscal discipline”, which counts the costs of action, but not the costs of inaction. On a conservative estimate, illegal dumping costs the economy in England £1bn a year."
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Say hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime | George Monbiot
Thanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dump, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Five parties in double digits. All below 25%. With polling like this, First Past the Post = chaos.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
What could possibly explain the intensity of Western interest, over the past century and more, in this region?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The daft thing is that with Proportional Representation there'd be no need for this self-destructive war within Labour. It could split into its component parts - left and right - and people could vote for what they wanted. It's only First-Past-the-Post that forces these irreconcilables together.
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Will Payne @willpayne.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Fox hunters are scum. Violent criminals who kill innocent wildlife for their own pleasure. A civilised society should not let such barbaric behaviour go unpunished.
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Foxes ‘torn apart’ in shocking footage of illegal hunts in UK
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
To wrap your head around this, you have to realize that THE SUN is constantly sending Earth a *massive* amount of energy. That energy could easily power our world. Instead it's cooking us under the pollution from burning fossil fuels — a vastly smaller, dirtier, and more expensive energy source.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Many people still imagine beekeeping and honey making are somehow 'good for nature'. But it's the *total* opposite. share.google/1csfRNfR3lnL...
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“A beehive is as natural as a pasture of grazing sheep.” Why beekeeping is causing a huge problem for wild bees – according to scientists | Discover Wildlife
A dramatic rise in the number of managed beehives is negatively impacting wild pollinating insects
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Dannyboy wildlife @dannyboywildlife.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Cougar
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Dannyboy wildlife @dannyboywildlife.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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Will Payne @willpayne.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Zoos and aquariums are prisons for animals. Forced to live a torturous, unnatural life in captivity for the entertainment of humans. It's disgusting. Free the penguins and close the aquarium
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MPs call for release of 15 penguins ‘trapped’ at London aquarium
Cross-party group wants environment secretary to urgently examine moving the birds to a facility ‘better aligned with their needs’
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Partly because so many formerly leftwing parties have turned to the right, there's a lot of confusion about what right and left mean in politics. I hope this helps: The right defends economic power. The left resists economic power.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
British.
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Will Payne @willpayne.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Disgusting authoritarian overreach. This Labour government is a joke.
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Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office
Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
“Ministers are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to Gaza, the Home Office has said.” They’re enabling a genocide and silencing opposition. This is authoritarianism. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests
The move is not a ban on protests but "about restrictions and conditions", Shabana Mahmood tells the BBC.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing The web of life is unravelling fast
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Wild bird numbers continue to fall in UK with some species in ‘dramatic freefall’
Species index fell by 4% between 2019 and 2024 – although data shows woodland populations beginning to stabilise
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🔴Trump Protest Van Highlighting Epstein Links Was Blocked by Police Within Minutes of Approaching Windsor Castle Officers drove away the van showing an image of the US President with the convicted paedophile as nearby activists and journalists were questioned bylinetimes.com/2025/09/17/t...
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Trump Protest Van Highlighting Epstein Links Was Blocked by Police Within Minutes of Approaching Windsor Castle
Officers drove away the advertising van showing an image of the US President with the convicted paedophile as nearby activists and journalists were questioned
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it. A few examples in 🧵: theconversation.com/how-should-l...
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How should Labour and the Tories respond to the populist right? Lessons from Europe
The evidence suggests traditional parties that ape the populist radical right’s policies risk boosting their rivals instead of reclaiming voters.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Fossil fuel extractors fight tooth and nail to prevent market forces from operating. They demand the equivalent of the royal monopolies once granted by the Crown, excluding competitors, enabling old technologies to fend off newer ones. Trump answers the call. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Fossil fuel extractors bend the world to their will – help fund the journalism that exposes them
Across the globe, oil, gas and coal companies use an ever-widening set of tactics to crush competition and opposition. With the world’s most powerful man helping them at every turn, it’s critical we r...
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Will Payne @willpayne.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Our failure to act is a punishment we inflict upon ourselves. Every year it will get hotter and hotter. Until eventually we cannot take anymore. There is still time to change. But if we fail to act, nothing else will matter, because nothing else will exist.
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Temperature records broken as extreme heat grips parts of Europe
Unprecedented temperatures causing difficulties in south-west France, Croatia, Italy and Spain with wildfire destruction across Europe up 87%
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Will Payne @willpayne.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
BBC news is such a boot licking organisation. "Israel has strongly denied allegations of genocide relating to the ongoing war in Gaza." It's not their job to tell the country what Israel denies, it's their job to look at the (overwhelming) evidence of genocide and call it what it is.
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Kneecap hit back at Starmer in highly-charged Glastonbury set - BBC News
The Irish-language rap trio play to a packed crowd, despite calls for their performance to be banned.
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Will Payne @willpayne.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"If the entire Greenland ice sheet melted, global sea levels would rise by 24 feet. The sheet won’t melt all at once, of course, but scientists are increasingly concerned by signs of accelerating ice-sheet retreat. A recent report showed that it has been losing mass every year for the past 27 years"
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When Will Greenland’s Ice Disappear? Scientists Are Racing to Find Out
The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?
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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
"if we all stopped consuming animals and permanently swapped to plant-based food, we could return 3.1 billion hectares of farmland to forests and natural grasslands." That's the size of the US, China, the EU & Australia combined. 8Gt of CO2 would be removed each year. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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From nuts to kelp: The 'carbon-negative' foods that help reverse climate change
Eating low-carbon foods helps reduce emissions, but some foods actually suck up carbon from the atmosphere for good, leaving the climate in a better place. Could we eat more of them?
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Will Payne @willpayne.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Deadly weekend heat in England ‘100 times more likely’ due to climate crisis
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Deadly weekend heat in England ‘100 times more likely’ due to climate crisis
High temperatures likely to cause deaths and will worsen in future as global heating intensifies, scientists warn
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Will Payne @willpayne.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Deeply worrying authoritarian creep. "British police arrest more than 30 people a day for online posts ... Many have simply said something that someone else considers offensive." If we're not free to express ourselves online, then we're not free.
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Britain’s police are restricting speech in worrying ways
Muddled laws give them wide discretion
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships...effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions." apnews.com/article/ship...
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Major nations agree on first-ever global tax on greenhouse gases with plan that targets shipping
Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships, if their planet-heating emissions are not already accou...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Studies show a massive return of fish and marine megafauna to sites with these underwater tidal turbines. How? Simple: overfishing is prevented. If they proved suitable for Irish locations, it would be *such* a win-win, generating clean electricity AND providing a haven for marine ecosystems.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 24/03/2025
Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 2nd lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 400,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 840,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,330,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,760,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🧪
Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between January and April by looking at the decadal average line positions.
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Will Payne @willpayne.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Whales sing when they’ve had a good meal – new research theconversation.com/whales-sing-...
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Whales sing when they’ve had a good meal – new research
The findings are a window into the rich inner lives of whales – and allow us to check the health of the ocean.
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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Yet again, if these were climate protestors, there'd have been multiple arrests, with some facing years in jail for "public nuisance". But farmers can block the road and drown out the Prime Minister and the police won't touch them. The real #TwoTierPolicing
Starmer cuts short Buckinghamshire visit after farmers stage noisy tractor protest
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Plastic is oil. It gives people cancer, makes as much carbon pollution in the US as burning coal, and is now in everything: land, sea, food, water, and our bodies. And the only word Big Oil knows is "MORE."
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Exxon is quietly planning a new $8.6 billion plastics plant in Texas
Exxon's proposal for a plastics factory on the Gulf Coast raises alarms for a community already dealing with pollution.
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