Facing multiple lawsuits, Dow requests an “unprecedented” permit amendment to authorize its discharge of polyethylene pellets ...

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A Monmouth County woman and Clean Water Action are fighting against single-use plastic pollution across New Jersey. Here's ...

Plastic pollution is more than just trash on the beach. Marine plastic waste releases PFAS and heavy metals into the water of small freshwater lakes and ponds, at levels exceeding the threshold limits ...

Every egg case examined contained plastic particles, raising urgent questions about how pollution may be affecting sharks ...

Plastics don’t just pose a threat to the marine environment and people’s health; they jeopardize basic human rights. This is the framing that a growing number of legal experts, policymakers, and ...

I was a junior in high school when the first World Environment Day (WED) was celebrated in 1972. Marked annually on June 5, it was established by the United Nations General Assembly and over the past ...

This Thursday marks World Environment Day, an annual awareness day born out of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It’s the largest global platform for environmental outreach, and this ...

More than 350,000 chemicals are used worldwide, and many find their way into the ocean through plastic pollution. As plastics ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Monday is Earth Day, and one of the easiest ways to help the environment is to reduce your use of plastic. Twenty two million pounds of plastic waste end up in the Great Lakes every ...

ZARANJ (Pajhwok): As plastic pollution grows into a serious environmental and health challenge in Afghanistan, women in ...

Countries expected to be present in Tokyo include big oil producers like Saudi Arabia, Russia and the United States as well as islands states Antigua and Barbuda and Palau, plus China, India and the ...