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Melissa Mason, a volunteer in a clean-up crew, picks up a piece of discarded plastic in Millvale, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
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Evan Clark, a boat captain with the non-profit Allegheny CleanWays, tries to pull a plastic barrel from a debris island floating in the Monongahela River.
Hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, Royal Dutch Shell saw its profits drop 71 percent between 2019 and 2020. Its recovery will likely be stymied by the rise of electric cars and renewable energy, which will lead to falling demand for oil and, in the US, natural gas. There is one bright spot for the industry, however. Ethane, a n ....

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