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U.N. delegates follow the day's proceedings during the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee's third meeting to formulate an international legally binding plastics treaty in Nairobi, Kenya on Nov. 14, 2023. Credit: James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

As Plastic Treaty Delegates Head to Canada, A Plea From the Arctic: Don’t Forget Vulnerable Indigenous Peoples

By James Bruggers

Biden Administration Pressed to Act on Federal Contractor Climate Disclosure

By Marianne Lavelle

A California environmental advocate who owns stock in Kraft Heinz has put forward a shareholder proposal for the company to study the claims made on recycling labels for a variety of products, including Velveeta Shells and Cheese bowls. Credit: Dorann Weber/Getty Images

Kraft Heinz Faces Shareholder Vote On Its ‘Deceptive’ Recycling Labels

By James Bruggers

Fred Stone’s Arundel dairy farm was one of more than 60 Maine farms that had to be shut down due to PFAS contamination. Credit: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

PFAS Is an Almost Impossible Problem to Tackle—and It’s Probably in Your Food

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Smoke rises from the derailed cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 4, 2023. Credit: Dustin Franz/AFP via Getty Images

Accidents Involving Toxic Vinyl Chloride Are Commonplace, a New Report Finds

By Kiley Bense

Steam rises from a petroleum processing tower at an oil refinery near Salt Lake City, Utah. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Petrochemicals Are Killing Us, a New Report Warns in the New England Journal of Medicine

By Liza Gross

Louisiana and Mississippi have the highest rates of low birth weight and preterm birth in the country, and new evidence suggests industrial pollution could play a role. Credit: Getty Images

Louisiana’s Toxic Air Is Linked to Low-Weight and Pre-Term Births

Jessica Kutz, The 19th

Gulf Coast Growth Ventures, a $10 billion plastics plant built by ExxonMobil and SABIC, started operations this year on 1,300 acres of previously undeveloped land in San Patricio County, across the bay from Corpus Christi, Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Gulf Coast Petrochemical Buildout Draws Billions in Tax Breaks Despite Pollution Violations

By Dylan Baddour

Nathan Harrington, who leads Ward 8 Woods Conservancy, carries a broken tire visible from the road to his truck. Credit: Kayla Benjamin/The Washington Informer

DC’s Tire-Dumping Epidemic

Kayla Benjamin, The Washington Informer via Report for America

A Presidente Supermarket employee bags groceries in Miami, Fla. A proposed statewide measure in Florida would block cities from banning single-use plastic items. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Q&A: The Latest in the Battle Over Plastic Bag Bans

By Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

Formosa Plastic Corp's complex on Lavaca Bay in Point Comfort, Texas, pictured on June 7, 2023. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

New Lake Will Fuel Petrochemical Expansion on Texas Coast

By Dylan Baddour

Attendees of the microfactory launch event inspect plastic pellets produced during the recycling process at the Goodwill Retail Operations Center in Tempe, Ariz. on Feb. 6. Credit: ASU Knowledge Enterprise/Andy DeLisle

Could ‘Microfactories’ Pave a New Path Forward for Plastic Recycling?

By Wyatt Myskow

The site of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio on Feb. 14, 2023. Credit: Rebecca Kiger/The Washington Post via Getty Images

One Year Later, Pennsylvanians Living Near the East Palestine Train Derailment Site Say They’re Still Sick

By Kiley Bense

A boat transporting recycling waste sails on the Upper New York Bay between Staten Island and Manhattan on Dec 29, 2023. Credit: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

Environmental Groups Eye a Potential Win with New York Packaging Bill

By James Bruggers

Bales of plastic bottles at a recycling center in San Jose, Calif. Credit: Aric Crabb/Digital First Media/Bay Area News via Getty Images

A Battle Over Plastic Recycling Claims Heats Up in California Over ‘Truth in Labeling’ Law

By James Bruggers

Mobile city workers shovel pounds of Mardi Gras beads into the back of a truck. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

During Mardi Gras, Tons of Fun Comes With Tons of Toxic Beads

By Lee Hedgepeth

A liter of bottled water may contain nearly a quarter million pieces of the smallest particles of plastic. Credit: Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images

Diet for a Sick Planet: Studies Find More Plastic in Our Food and Bottled Water

By James Bruggers

Plastic additives called bisphenols are found in a dizzying array of products—like canned food linings. Credit: Li Jianguo/Xinhua via Getty Images

More Than 900 Widely Used Chemicals May Increase Breast Cancer Risk

By Liza Gross

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