Negotiators gathered in Busan, South Korea, on Monday in a final push to create a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution. It's the fifth time the world's nations convene to craft a legally binding plastic pollution accord. In addition to the national delegations, representatives from the plastics industry, scientists and environmentalists have come to shape how the world tackles the surging problem.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is tapping a longtime Democratic Socialist organizer to head up a shiny new agency in City Hall in an attempt to co-opt his comrades' mobilization model to city government....