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Plastics

'Delay, Distract, and Derail': New Report Reveals How Plastic Polluters Have Avoided Regulation Worldwide for Decades

Global Coalition Issues Liability 'Roadmap' to Make Big Corporate Polluters Pay for Planetary Harm

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Liability Roadmap

"This is about making Big Polluters pay for the havoc they've wreaked by fueling the climate crisis and about forcing them to end their abuses. This is about making Big Polluters pay for causing decades of suffering and destruction in communities on the global frontlines of the climate crisis, with...

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"Is There No End to Big Oil's Evil?" Campaigners Condemn Industry Plan to Pour US Plastics Into Africa

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Volunteers remove plastic bottles and other trash polluting Ruaka River on August 25, 2020. Increasing production of single-use plastics for beverage and other uses has become a nightmare in solid waste management in Kenya. (Photo: James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Anti-pollution advocates responded with alarm to the American Chemistry Council...

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Activists Demand Bolder Efforts to Address Pollution After Scientists Find Microplastics in Human Organs

Krissy Waite, editorial intern

Underneath the floating debris in the Pacific Ocean. (Photo: NOAA – Marine Debris Program)

"The best way to tackle the problem is to massively reduce the amount of...

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In response to the Thursday arrest of two local activists as "part of a coordinated attack on those who defend democracy and challenge the petrochemical industry," environmentalists in Louisiana have launched the Defend Democracy Alliance.

'Outrageous and Chilling': Police Condemned for Charging Peaceful Environmentalists With 'Terrorizing' in Louisiana

plastic food packaging

Greenpeace Finds Labels on Plastic Products 'Mislead the Public and Harm America's Recycling Systems'

Formosa plant protesters

Groups Challenge Louisiana Permits for Formosa Plastics' Giant Petrochemical Complex in Cancer Alley

$fracking infrastructure$

Climate Watchdog Warns US Fracking Boom Leading to 30% Rise in Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2025

Sharon Lavigne, founder and president of the faith-based community group RISE St. James

Louisiana Officials Urged to Rescind Permission for Petrochemical Plant Over Cancer Dangers and Discovery of Burial Grounds for Enslaved People

Break Free From Plastic Movement Blasts Big Polluters on Industry-Backed 'America Recycles Day'

Greenpeace Report Offers Vision of 'Smart Supermarkets' and a Future Free of Single-Use Plastics

In urine samples, residues of various plastic ingredients were found in 97 to 100 percent of the children examined.

German Study: Alarming Levels of Dangerous Plastics in Children's Bodies

Condemning 'Grossly Irresponsible' Inaction of World Powers, Fiji Unveils Ambitious Plan to Fight Climate Crisis

tim hortons cups

Canada's Plan to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Make Corporations Responsible for Waste Welcomed as 'Step in the Right Direction'

Plastic production and disposal is responsible for high greenhouse gas emissions, warns a new report.

"Alarming" Report Details Emissions Danger of Plastics Production and Disposal—And It's Set to Get Worse

San Francisco First City to Ban Plastic Shopping Bags

Newswire

Center for International Environmental Law

Investigation Details Industry’s Attempts to Flood Africa with Plastic Pollution

350.org

Facing downturn in U.S. and global markets, Big Oil targets Africa to dump plastics

Greenpeace

Report Highlights Reusable Models That Can Instill Confidence During the Pandemic

As You Sow

Companies Fail to Address Plastic Pollution Crisis, Report Finds No Corporate Leaders, Many Laggards

Greenpeace

Greenpeace Responds to Introduction of Groundbreaking Break Free From Plastic Legislation

International Pollutants Elimination Network

IPEN, the International Pollutants Elimination Network, Two Decades of Reducing and Eliminating the Most Harmful Chemicals

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Robert C. Koehler

Life in Cancer Alley

David Suzuki, Ian Hanington

We Are Living in a Plastic World

Robert C. Koehler

Is There Life Beyond Plastic?

Sonali Kolhatkar

Plastic Is Just as Destructive to the Climate as Oil and Gas