‘Advanced’ Recycling of Plastic Using High Heat and Chemicals Is Costly and Environmentally Problematic, A New Government Study Finds Industry is pursuing various technologies to help solve the global plastic waste problem, but environmentalists say new recycling techniques only make environmental problems worse. By James Bruggers
Congress Urges EPA to Maintain Clean-Air Regulations on Chemical Recycling of Plastics By James Bruggers
Is ‘Chemical Recycling’ a Solution to the Global Scourge of Plastic Waste or an Environmentally Dirty Ruse to Keep Production High? By James Bruggers
A New Shell Plant in Pennsylvania Will ‘Just Run and Run’ Producing the Raw Materials for Single-Use Plastics By James Bruggers
A Gary, Indiana Plant Would Make Jet Fuel From Trash and Plastic. Residents Are Pushing Back By James Bruggers
An Environmental Group Challenges a Proposed Plastics ‘Advanced Recycling’ Plant in Pennsylvania By James Bruggers
A New, Massive Plastics Plant in Southwest Pennsylvania Barely Registers Among Voters By Emma Ricketts
Sinkholes Attributed to Gas Drilling Underline the Stakes in Pennsylvania’s Governor’s Race By Kiley Bense
Environmentalists Fear a Massive New Plastics Plant Near Pittsburgh Will Worsen Pollution and Stimulate Fracking By Jon Hurdle
A New Shell Plant in Pennsylvania Will Soon Become the State’s Second Largest Emitter of Volatile Organic Chemicals By Reid Frazier, StateImpact Pennsylvania
California Passed a Landmark Law About Plastic Pollution. Why Are Some Environmentalists Still Concerned? By James Bruggers
The Plastics Industry Searches for a ‘Circular’ Way to Cut Plastic Waste and Make More Plastics 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
A Houston Firm Says It’s Opening a Billion-Dollar Chemical Recycling Plant in a Small Pennsylvania Town. How Does It Work? By James Bruggers
In ‘Silent Spring,’ Rachel Carson Described a Fictional, Bucolic Hamlet, Much Like Her Hometown. Now, There’s a Plastics Plant Under Construction 30 Miles Away By Kiley Bense
Analysis: Fashion Industry Efforts to Verify Sustainability Make ‘Greenwashing’ Easier By Phil McKenna