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| SubscribeSharePast IssuesRSSTranslate View this email in your browser A smelting company in Norilsk, a Russian city of 176,000 residents north of the Arctic Circle, is responsible for pollution that has carved a barren landscape of dead and dying trees out of the taiga, a boreal forest that is one of the world’s largest carbon sinks. Its wastewater has turned glacial rivers red. The acrid smoke that pours from its stacks carries the worst sulfur dioxide pollution in the world. And last year, 6.5 million gallons of diesel fuel spilled from the company’s complex into the Daldykan River. Despite its environmental harms, the company, Norilsk Nickel, plans to increase production of metals for the “green economy” because electric vehicle batteries pose a major growth opportunity. The company has said it will spend billions of dollars to tackle the air pollution that has poisoned the landscape and reduced the quality of life in the Norilsk region, pledging to reduce sulfur dioxide pollution at Norilsk 45 percent by 2023 and 90 percent by 2025. Yet former workers who have confronted the company for its environmental wrongdoings doubt those goals will be achieved. ‘A Trash Heap for Our Children’: How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth BY MARIANNE LAVELLE A smelting company has poisoned rivers, killed off boreal forest and belched out more sulfur dioxide than active volcanoes. Now it wants to produce more metal for the “green economy.” Read More A Commonsense Proposal to Deal With Plastics Pollution: Stop Making So Much Plastic BY JAMES BRUGGERS A report from leading scientists found that the U.S. is the world’s leading generator of plastic waste, at 287 pounds per capita. 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