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Former Secretary of State John Kerry and Chinese Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection Zhai Qing arrive for a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 28th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Kigali on October 14, 2016. Credit: Cyril Ndegeya/AFP via Getty Images

Is China Emitting a Climate Super Pollutant in Violation of an International Environmental Agreement?

By Phil McKenna, Peter Aldhous

The ExxonMobil Baytown Complex in Baytown, Texas, at dusk. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

The Missing Equations at ExxonMobil’s Advanced Recycling Operation

By James Bruggers

Jan Dell, founder of The Last Beach Cleanup and a chemical engineer, examines the contents of a large container of bagged plastics at a Houston Recycling Collaboration all-plastics recycling depository in the Houston community of Kingwood in September. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

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

By James Bruggers

In Youngstown, Ohio, SOBE Thermal Energy Systems proposed using a zero or very low oxygen chemical process that would turn shredded tires into a gas that would be burned to produce steam for heating buildings. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images.

Youngstown City Council Unanimously Votes Against an ‘Untested and Dangerous’ Tire Pyrolysis Plant

By James Bruggers

In Darrow, Louisiana, Monique Harden of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice talks to residents about carbon capture at the Hillaryville Pavilion in June. Credit: Emily Kask for the Washington Post via Getty Images.

Q&A: The EPA Dropped a Civil Rights Probe in Louisiana After the State’s AG Countered With a Reverse Discrimination Suit

Interview by Steve Curwood, "Living on Earth"

Ami Zota, an environmental researcher at Columbia University, is studying the health impacts of beauty products marketed to women of color. Credit: Ami Zota

Q&A: Ami Zota on the Hidden Dangers in Beauty Products—and Why Women of Color Are Particularly at Risk

By Victoria St. Martin

SOBE Energy Solutions' site for its proposed tire pyrolysis chemical plant that would make synthetic gas to burn and produce steam for heating and cooling some downtown Youngstown, Ohio, buildings. Marketed as a green solution to waste and energy problems, critics view it as a source of unwanted toxic air emissions and a fire or explosion risk next to a large jail, student housing and other buildings. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

In Youngstown, a Downtown Tire Pyrolysis Plant Is Called a ‘Recipe for Disaster’

By James Bruggers

A worker involved in making the first road constructed with plastic waste in Agartala, the capital city of India's northeastern state of Tripura, on Jan. 29, 2021. Credit Xinhua/Stringer via Getty Images

Experts Study Using Waste Plastic in Roads and More, but Find the Practice Isn’t Ready for Prime Time

By James Bruggers

Female workers sort out plastic bottles for recycling in a factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh in October 2016. Plastic not only poses an immense pollution problem—it also exacerbates climate change. If plastic production stays on its current trajectory, by 2030, greenhouse gas emissions from plastics could reach 1.34 billion tons per year, equivalent to the emissions produced by 300 new 500MW coal-fired power plants. Credit: Abir Abdullah / Climate Visuals Countdown

Q&A: The Truth About Those Plastic Recycling Labels

Activists in Lisbon pose holding signs during a rally against maritime mining at Luis de Camoes square. The protest against deep sea mining is an initiative of Portuguese environmental non-governmental organizations as a preview to the World Ocean Day, under the slogan "Join us to give voice to the deep sea," which denounces the use of heavy machinery that destroys marine ecosystems. Credit: Jorge Castellanos/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images.

As an Obscure United Nations Gathering Deliberates the Fate of Deep-Sea Mining, the Tuna Industry Calls for a Halt

By Georgina Gustin

The Shell plastics plant on the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Credit: Mark Dixon, Flickr, CC BY 2.0.

Q&A: What to Do About Pollution From a Vast New Shell Plastics Plant in Pennsylvania

Girl scares seagulls to flight on Lake Erie in Ohio. Credit: John Greim/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Federal Money Begins Flowing to Lake Erie for Projects With an Eye on Future Climate Impacts 

By Kathiann M. Kowalski

Michele Klimczak, the coastal debris coordinator for the Fishers Island Conservancy, sits in front of a day’s haul of garbage, nearly 150 lbs, collected over a few hours on a Fishers Island, New York beach. She weighs and records the trash she collects, the record of which is available to view on https://www.ficonservancy.org/

The ‘Sisyphus of Trash’ Struggles to Clean Relentless Waves of Plastic From a New York Island’s Beaches

By Devin Speak

Democrat Josh Shapiro delivers his victory speech on November 8, 2022, after his election as Pennsylvania governor. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images.

Secretive State Climate Talks Stir Discontent With Pennsylvania Governor

By Kiley Bense

Kory Kistler, left, and Roy Bisnett, had environmental health and safety concerns at the Brightmark chemical recycling plant where they both worked until last year. Credit: James Bruggers

Inside Indiana’s ‘Advanced’ Plastics Recycling Plant: Dangerous Vapors, Oil Spills and Life-Threatening Fires 

By James Bruggers

Jay Schabel, president of the plastics division at Brightmark, holds waste plastic from what he described as medical hip replacement parts at the company's new chemical recycling plant in northeast Indiana at the end of July. The plant is designed to turn plastic waste into diesel fuel, naphtha, and wax. Credit: James Bruggers

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

By James Bruggers

Ghana's Betty Osei Bonsu, representing the Green Africa Youth Organization, a nongovernmental group, will be attending next week’s U.N. negotiating session to develop a legally binding treaty to curb plastic pollution. Credit: World Wildlife Fund.

On the Eve of Plastics Treaty Talks, a Youth Advocate From Ghana Speaks Out: ‘We Need Urgent Action’

By James Bruggers

Canadian activist and artist, Benjamin von Wong is pictured in front of his 30-foot monument themed 'turn off the plastics tap' created using plastic waste from Nairobi's largest slum, Kibera, standing outside the venue of the Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly, at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Headquarters in Nairobi on Feb. 22, 2022. Credit: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images

UN Agency Provides Path to 80 Percent Reduction in Plastic Waste. Recycling Alone Won’t Cut It

By James Bruggers

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