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    Fracking and Oil Drilling Waste

    good article in Harper's Mag about  fracking waste often being radioactive
    "A Good Company" by Justin Nobel" is the article in Harper' magazine 2025.  You may need to pay to see it.   

    Petroleum 238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It - The book is available from Ingrahams
    A hedgefund, KKR, owns parts of  fracking companies Crescent Energy and Javelin Oil and Gas  .   There are over 24 million barrels of waste in TX.  Also, 
    US oil and gas generates over a trillion gallons of oil field brine waste per year.

    Plastics Recycling Fails & Poisons

    More toxic chemicals are released during plastics recycling.  And loil cos. push more plastics and recycling in order to develop a demand for more oil to pro duce plastics. They do this , in case demand for oil falls. New Yorker article june 26,2023 by Elizabeth Kolbert.  

    Oil Company Plans to Make Plastics Waste into Fuel by a Process that give 1 in 4 Persons Cancer

    link  " EPA gave a Chevron refinery approval to make a fuel that could leave people nearby with a 1-in-4 lifetime risk of cancer"  This would occur in a community already poisoned by many other industrial facilities.   "“So-called ‘chemical recycling’ has been touted by companies like Chevron as a way to reduce plastic waste through repurposing it but turning plastic waste into fuel increases greenhouse gas emissions, subsidizes the petrochemical industry, and harms frontline communities located near these facilities.”"

    Tobacco Destroys Forests and Pollutes

    link    Per Year: 8 million people killed,    600 million trees cut down  (200,000 hectares of land clearcut), 20 milloion tons of water used to grow tobacco,4.5 trillion filters littered, 6 trillion cigarettes,  lots of batteries and cartridges for e-cigarettes. toxic pesticides and fertilizers used to grow tobacco, 7000 toxic chemicals released .