With tailored, evidence-based policies, the U.S. can relieve the burden on local and municipal governments, communities, and ...

"The Problem With Plastic" is both a call to arms and a thorough look at the far-reaching effects of plastic production.

Cleaning plastic containers in household dishwashers has been linked to both polluting wastewater and health issues. When these containers are cleaned, microplastics and nanoplastics are released ...

Plastic pollution is a big problem for our oceans and although in recent years, people have started cutting down on plastic consumption, as we have realized the effects plastic pollution can have on ...

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš was hoping she’d be a part of history last month when more than 170 countries gathered in Busan, South Korea, to forge a legally binding global treaty to curb plastic ...

It was a year of growing challenges as well as comeback stories in the Great Lakes. While Detroit welcomed a large new park, ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released its National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution, which outlines opportunities to protect communities from the impacts of plastic production and ...

New research points to an unexpected way plastic pollution may be influencing Earth’s climate system. A recent study suggests ...

Across the globe, pollution has triggered alarming climatic changes — rising sea levels, floods and droughts, declining crop ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double by 2050. But in a study published in the journal Science, these same ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish a Roundtable on Plastics that will provide a forum for examining issues associated with national efforts to reduce plastic ...

SAN ANTONIO – The 89th Texas legislative session kicks off next Tuesday. Thousands of bills will be filed, including some focused on state environmental concerns. Protecting Texas’ resources and its ...