Plastic industry backers and environmental justice (EJ) advocates exchanged sometimes fiery comments at a recent hearing over plastics production and its impact on poor communities of color.
While a Republican senator charged that Democrats have “taken over” [a social movement] to push progressive policies under the guise of social and racial equality” a Louisiana resident and doctoral student in cardiovascular physiology called out the plastics industry for “carelessly raising our health care costs and poisoning our people.”
