In a landmark lawsuit filed this week, the California attorney general accused ExxonMobil of “deceptively” promoting chemical recycling as a solution for the plastics crisis, citing ProPublica’s recent reporting and expanding on our findings.

In June, we examined the oil giant’s claim that it had transformed discarded plastic into new fruit cups through an “advanced” chemical recycling technology called pyrolysis. We broke down the math to show just how little recycled content winds up in products made this way and how companies inflate that percentage in their marketing.

The lawsuit cited the fruit cup example alongside the attorney general’s own discoveries, which reveal an even more extreme gap between what ExxonMobil advertises and how much recycled plastic its products actually contain.

This spring, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department’s refugees bureau determined that Israel had deliberately blocked humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza.

If Blinken took their recommendations, the U.S. would be required to cut off weapons shipments to Israel. He rejected them. Instead, he sided with the Israelis and told Congress weeks later, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance.”

Note: Due to a production error, one of the links to the featured story in our earlier newsletter on Texas unwinding Medicaid was incorrect. You can read our investigation on how Texas removed millions of eligible people from Medicaid here.