More PFAS news with New York’s proposed ban, an update on Wisconsin’s frozen “forever chemicals” funding, and how federal ...

The bioplastics company, with an office in Shelton, collaborated with a UConn marine sciences team to evaluate the product’s ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reverse a federal push away from plastic straws, declaring that paper ...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials from Chicago have been aiding a poor, predominantly white Ohio village upended when a train derailed and spilled more than 100,000 gallons of hazardous ...

Scientists are urging the US and Canadian governments to take swift action after discovering high levels of microplastic ...

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

The small plastic particles are "ubiquitous" in Great Lakes water, sediment, plants, fish and beaches, an international panel ...

Microplastics are present in all five of the Great Lakes, but there is no coordinated, basinwide effort to monitor and report on the status of plastic pollution. In a new report, the International ...

Stelt. Beck, a toxicologist best known for her efforts to weaken health standards that undergird regulations on pollution ...

BOCA DEL RIO, Mexico (AP) — A startup in Mexico is trying to help get a handle on one Gulf coast city’s plastic waste problem ...