Plastics
Federal Money Begins Flowing to Lake Erie for Projects With an Eye on Future Climate Impacts
By Kathiann M. Kowalski
The ‘Sisyphus of Trash’ Struggles to Clean Relentless Waves of Plastic From a New York Island’s Beaches
By Devin Speak
Secretive State Climate Talks Stir Discontent With Pennsylvania Governor
By Kiley Bense
Inside Indiana’s ‘Advanced’ Plastics Recycling Plant: Dangerous Vapors, Oil Spills and Life-Threatening Fires
By James Bruggers
EPA Spurns Trump-Era Effort to Drop Clean-Air Protections For Plastic Waste Recycling
By James Bruggers
On the Eve of Plastics Treaty Talks, a Youth Advocate From Ghana Speaks Out: ‘We Need Urgent Action’
By James Bruggers
UN Agency Provides Path to 80 Percent Reduction in Plastic Waste. Recycling Alone Won’t Cut It
By James Bruggers
Who Said Recycling Was Green? It Makes Microplastics By the Ton
By James Bruggers
Environmentalists Want the FTC Green Guides to Slam the Door on the ‘Chemical’ Recycling of Plastic Waste
By James Bruggers
Where There’s Plastic, There’s Fire. Indiana Blaze Highlights Concerns Over Expanding Plastic Recycling
By James Bruggers
Plastic Recycling Plant Could Send Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Into the Susquehanna River, Polluting a Vital Drinking Water Source
By James Bruggers
From Gas Wells to Rubber Ducks to Incineration, the Plastics Lifecycle Causes ‘Horrific Harm’ to the Planet and People, Report Shows
By James Bruggers
How to ‘Make Some Good’ Out of East Palestine, Ohio, Rail Disaster? Ban Vinyl Chloride, Former EPA Official Says
By James Bruggers
Encina Chemical Recycling Plant in Pennsylvania Faces Setback: One of its Buildings Is Too Tall
By James Bruggers
Once Hailed as a Solution to the Global Plastics Scourge, PureCycle May Be Teetering
By James Bruggers
Biden Administration’s Global Plastics Plan Dubbed ‘Low Ambition’ and ‘Underwhelming’
By James Bruggers
