Aboard an aluminum skiff or one of her five kayaks, fourth-generation shrimper and fisherwoman Diane Wilson often plies the ...

LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — Local community leaders are working to raise awareness of plastic pellet pollution, a problem that remains prevalent in the Charleston area. Advocates from the Public ...

It’s been more than two weeks since a cargo ship in New Orleans spilled millions – possibly billions – of tiny plastic pellets into the Mississippi River, but state and federal agencies have issued no ...

Assortment of pellets of different colours recycled from plastic waste bottles that are used for making plastic chairs during World Environment day held in Nairobi Riruta on Monday, June, 05, 2023.

This Crain’s Forum on the emerging threat of microplastics pollution in the Great Lakes is a joint project of the newsrooms of Crain’s Chicago Business and Crain's Detroit Business. McDonald's Corp.

When Heather Hulton VanTassel went looking for plastic pellets in the Ohio River in 2021, she was simply trying to establish a baseline level of contamination. A new plastics facility was being ...

South Carolina conservation groups are threatening legal action against resin distributor Frontier Logistics LP over pellet pollution in the Charleston Harbor, following a similar lawsuit against a ...

Democrats in Washington have put a provision mandating tougher regulations on pellet discharge from plastic factories in the $715 billion fast-track surface transportation spending plan that the U.S.

It’s been more than two weeks since a cargo ship in New Orleans spilled millions – possibly billions – of tiny plastic pellets into the Mississippi River, but state and federal agencies have issued no ...

UNC-Chapel Hill is asking the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality to update its air permit to allow it to burn recycled paper-and-plastic pellets at its Cogeneration power plant on Cameron Avenue ...

Every day large quantities of water are used for both domestic and industrial purposes. The Earth has abundant water resources but there is only an extremely limited amount of safe, drinkable water.

Editor’s note: This is the second entry in a series examining the causes, impacts and solutions to plastic pollution in the Great Lakes. Read the first, third and fourth entries here. BENTON HARBOR, ...