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Landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon.

National
Environment

How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

8:17pm September 11, 2020

by Laura Sullivan

An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.

U.S. Army soldiers pass out water, provided by FEMA, to residents in a neighborhood without grid electricity or running water in San Isidro, Puerto Rico, on Oct. 17, 2017.

National

FEMA Report Acknowledges Failures In Puerto Rico Disaster Response

3:45pm July 13, 2018

Problems included a lack of key supplies on Puerto Rico before the storm, unqualified staff and challenges with delivering emergency supplies, according to the internal report.

Hunter, shown at his home in Arlington, Va., says the National Flood Insurance Program doesn't charge homeowners enough in premiums to adequately fund itself.

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Economy
Environment

Business Of Disaster: Insurance Firms Profited $400 Million After Sandy

4:24pm May 25, 2016

by Laura Sullivan

More than three years after Superstorm Sandy, NPR and PBS's Frontline investigate the thousands still not home, the government agencies that failed to help and the companies that made millions.

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