What happens when you give industries that are frequently ostracized for their role in environmental degradation an ‘open license to pollute?’ They take it with open arms. “This is an open license to pollute. Plain and simple. The administration should be giving its all toward making our country healthier right now. Instead, it is taking advantage of an unprecedented public health crisis to do favors for polluters that threaten public health,” Gina McCarthy, president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said recently . The embattled plastics industry has been handed a new lifeline after dozens of plastic bag bans on the verge of taking effect have been put on hold in several states on fears of infections by the SARS-CoV-2 virus from reusable bags. Facing an existential crisis driven by a wave of bans nationwide, the plastic bag industry has been using the coronavirus crisis to block […]