Here's How The Small Business Loan Program Went Wrong In Just 4 Weeks Not-so-small companies like Shake Shack and organizations like the LA Lakers were able to get loans that were meant for suffering small businesses. What happened?Trish Pugh started an Ohio trucking company with her husband in 2015. Even for a small business, it's small — they had two drivers, counting her husband, until they let one go because of the coronavirus crisis. And so her company applied for a loan under the first, $349 billion round of the Paycheck Protection Program, which the federal government had set up to...…Here's How The Small Business Loan Program Went Wrong In Just 4 Weeks Not-so-small companies like Shake Shack and organizations like the LA Lakers were able to get loans that were meant for suffering small businesses. What happened?Trish Pugh started an Ohio trucking company with her husband in 2015. Even for a small business, it's small — they had two drivers, counting her husband, until they let one go because of the coronavirus crisis. And so her company applied for a loan under the first, $349 billion round of the Paycheck Protection Program, which the federal government had set up to...WW…

Plastics Industry Promoted Recycling To Help Keep Oil And Gas Profits High An investigation from NPR and the PBS show Frontline found oil and gas companies had serious doubts that plastic recycling was viable, but promoted it to keep profits high and plastic bans at bay.Heard onToggle more optionsEditor's note: NPR will be publishing stories from this investigative series in the weeks and months ahead, even as we focus our current coverage on the coronavirus pandemic. But here's a look at some of our key findings. You can watch the full documentary film from this investigation on the PBS...…Plastics Industry Promoted Recycling To Help Keep Oil And Gas Profits High An investigation from NPR and the PBS show Frontline found oil and gas companies had serious doubts that plastic recycling was viable, but promoted it to keep profits high and plastic bans at bay.Heard onToggle more optionsEditor's note: NPR will be publishing stories from this investigative series in the weeks and months ahead, even as we focus our current coverage on the coronavirus pandemic. But here's a look at some of our key findings. You can watch the full documentary film from this investigation on the PBS...WW…

Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.Heard onToggle more optionsNote: An audio version of this story aired on NPR's Planet Money. Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash pour out of a semitrailer: containers, bags, packaging, strawberry containers,...…Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.Heard onToggle more optionsNote: An audio version of this story aired on NPR's Planet Money. Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash pour out of a semitrailer: containers, bags, packaging, strawberry containers,...WW…