On November 21, 2024, the EPA issued its final National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution, as required by the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act. This comes after the Agency received almost 92,000 comments on ...

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...

Plastic pollution may be quietly fueling algal blooms by knocking out the grazers that usually keep algae under control.

Even if plastic pollution stopped entirely today, floating plastic would remain on the surface of the sea for 100 years, according to a new study. Scientists have long been puzzled by the fact that so ...

A Federal Court of Appeal ruling affirms the federal government’s authority under CEPA to regulate plastic pollution.

MIAMI, April 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world's largest cruise company, commended EPA Administrator Michael Regan and the White House ...

Private agencies in Chennai launch a pilot project to build infrastructure preventing plastic pollution in waterways, funded ...

After limits on production and regulating chemicals prevented agreement at UN talks in Geneva, where to next for the fight against plastic pollution? The collapse of the latest UN plastic treaty ...

"Today, the Court of Appeal overruled the Federal Court decision declaring the 2021 Order adding 'plastic manufactured items' to Schedule 1 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 invalid ...

The EPA has released the National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution, a six-part strategy to eliminate the release of plastic waste by 2040. In November 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection ...