内容摘要：“I don’t like the word, but I’m famous,” Shem Tov acknowledged of the chance to throw out the first pitch at his very first baseball game ever, and the other firsts he’s had in Boston.

“I don’t like the word, but I’m famous,” Shem Tov acknowledged of the chance to throw out the first pitch at his very first baseball game ever, and the other firsts he’s had in Boston.

A pod of dolphins swim off of Wolf Island, Ecuador in the Galapagos on Sunday, June 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Alie Skowronski)A type of Pacific green sea turtle swims through the water off of Wolf Island, Ecuador in the Galapagos on Monday, June 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Alie Skowronski)

A type of Pacific green sea turtle swims through the water off of Wolf Island, Ecuador in the Galapagos on Monday, June 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Alie Skowronski)Bigeye trevally fish swim against the current at Wolf Island, Ecuador in the Galapagos on Monday, June 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Alie Skowronski)Bigeye trevally fish swim against the current at Wolf Island, Ecuador in the Galapagos on Monday, June 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Alie Skowronski)

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Kristina Smithe was running the California International Marathon in 2019, grabbing cups of water to stay hydrated, when she started to think about how much waste such events produce. On the flight home, she did the math: 9,000 runners, 17 aid stations and something like 150,000 cups used once and thrown away.

“I was just shocked that, even in California, it’s not sustainable,” Smithe said.The blunder came days after the Trump administration gave New York a

to stop collecting the toll, which started in January and charges most drivers $9 to enter the most traffic-snarled part of the borough.In the memo, three assistant U.S. attorneys from the Southern District of New York wrote that there is “considerable litigation risk” in defending Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s decision to pull federal approval for the toll and that doing so would likely result in a legal loss.

Instead, the three attorneys wrote, the department might have better odds if it tried to end the toll through a different bureaucratic mechanism that would argue it no longer aligns with the federal government’s agenda.Nicholas Biase, a spokesperson for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement Thursday that the filing was “a completely honest error and was not intentional in any way.”