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Large retailers don’t have smokestacks, but they generate a lot of pollution − and states are starting to regulate it

  • Written by Johnathan Williams, Assistant Professor of History, University of Northern Iowa
imageOne of many trucks that move Target goods nationwide.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Did you receive a mail-order package this week? Carriers in the U.S. shipped 64 packages for every American in 2022, so it’s quite possible.

That commerce reflects the expansion of large-scale retail in recent decades, especially big-box chains like Walmart,...

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