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Since 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency has required thousands of industrial facilities in the United States to report how much pollution they release into the air. This program is called the ...

Scientists and theologians are calling for an end to unethical and immoral “unchecked increases in plastic production,” they write in a Declaration produced during the conference "Joining Science and ...

A collaboration between researchers at Imperial College London and GNS Science, suggests that reducing plastic pollution by 5% per year would stabilize the level of microplastics—plastics less than 5 ...

In the wake of the plastics treaty talks in Ottawa, a new report highlights the severe impacts of plastics and petrochemicals on Arctic Indigenous communities. Indigenous delegates were left with ...

An estimated 171 trillion pieces of plastic are lurking in the world’s oceans, and plastic production is expected to triple by 2060 if no changes are made. This growth could result in a significant ...

On March 2, 2022, delegates to the UN environment assembly adopted an ambitious resolution to develop the text of a new treaty by the end of 2024 to end plastic pollution. With 24 days of formal ...

YORK, Pennsylvania >> Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pledged today to rescind a Biden administration rule limiting power plant pollution and reiterated a promise to block Nippon ...

Paula Stigler Granados and Angel Granados, both San Diego State professors, wear respirators while standing near the Tijuana River. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The Times) Researchers have found that ...