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Startups Make Products From the Carbon in Fossil Fuels

The nascent sector is far from making a dent in climate change. But as consumption of fossil fuels continues to rise, these technologies could help change the view of carbon as a hard-to-manage waste product, released into the air at the world’s peril.

By Dylan Baddour

Does N.C. Need Another Polluting Plant to Turn Plastic Waste Into Diesel Fuel?

By Lisa Sorg

In Houston, a City Council Member Questions ‘Advanced’ Recycling of Plastic and a City Collaboration with ExxonMobil

By James Bruggers

A Giant Plastics Chemical Recycling Plant Planned for Pennsylvania Died After Two Years. What Happened?

By James Bruggers

A Plant Proposed in Youngstown, Ohio, Would Have Turned Tons of Tires Into Synthetic Gas. Local Officials Said Not So Fast

By James Bruggers

Dumped, Not Recycled? Electronic Tracking Raises Questions About Houston’s Drive to Repurpose a Full Range of Plastics

By James Bruggers

EPA Spurns Trump-Era Effort to Drop Clean-Air Protections For Plastic Waste Recycling

By James Bruggers

‘Advanced’ Recycling of Plastic Using High Heat and Chemicals Is Costly and Environmentally Problematic, A New Government Study Finds

By James Bruggers

A New Plant in Indiana Uses a Process Called ‘Pyrolysis’ to Recycle Plastic Waste. Critics Say It’s Really Just Incineration

By James Bruggers

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