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

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

Last year, a Chicago-based environmental nonprofit found litter on Great Lakes beaches was overwhelmingly composed of plastic. Microplastic pollution is linked to people, Kidd said. Scientists ...

The IJC’s call for a standardized, basin-wide monitoring approach presents an opportunity for Canada and the U.S. to take coordinated action. Without such measures, the growing presence of ...

Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists ...

International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes Science Advisory Board says lakes Ontario and Michigan show greater ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the federal government, the largest purchaser of goods ...

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 ...

U.S. Senators from Michigan Elissa Slotkin and Gary Peters are pushing new legislation Tuesday that would reauthorize the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) through ...

In addition to working with the private sector, other stakeholders, and state, local, Tribal, and Territorial governments to reduce the impact of plastic pollution, it planned to phase out federal ...

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