Learn more about the findings of the groundbreaking report, The New Coal: Plastics and Climate Change in a special virtual briefing for climate and environmental justice organizing groups at 7 PM ET US on 11/22/21.

Join Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics, and Alexis Goldsmith, organizing director for Beyond Plastics, to dig into the findings with a focus on using this report as a tool for organizing.

Monday, November 22 at 7pm ET
Registration: bit.ly/rsvp-11-22-21

Feel free to invite your colleagues and allies in the climate and environmental justice movement.

You can find the full report and appendices at: https://bit.ly/plasticisthenewcoal

Beyond Plastics’ recent report proves that when it comes to climate change, plastic is the new coal. Our new report reveals that greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. plastics industry will exceed the equivalent of 150 coal plants by 2025, outpacing coal’s ghg emissions by 2030. The emissions and pollution from this industry are focused in just 18 communities in the U.S., and, not surprisingly, these are primarily low-income communities and communities of color – a clear and growing example of environmental injustice.

With a major petrochemical buildout planned, the U.S. plastics industry threatens our global ability to stay below the 1.5 degree Celsius rise in temperature required to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.