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Great Lakes challenges range from whitefish collapse to plastic pollution, annual report shows

It was a year of growing challenges as well as comeback stories in the Great Lakes. While Detroit welcomed a large new park, ...
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Plastic pollution requires urgent action, says author Judith Enck

By Mike DiGirolamo Judith Enck is a former regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, appointed by ...
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How To Reduce Your Plastic Pollution

Plastic pollution is a big problem for our oceans and although in recent years, people have started cutting down on plastic consumption, as we have realized the effects plastic pollution can have on ...
KTLA

Spoonful of Shock: ‘Saving Our Seas’ dives into plastic pollution problem plaguing our planet

KTLA’s new ocean conservation series ‘Saving Our Seas’ dives into one of the largest and most worrisome issues facing our planet… the plastic problem. It’s a compounding catastrophe that has already ...
National Catholic Reporter

Resolve remains for global plastic pollution treaty after talks fall short

Days after talks on a new international treaty to curb plastic pollution collapsed, Sr. Patty Johnson was nonetheless feeling hopeful. Johnson was in Busan, South Korea, with three fellow Sisters of ...
University of California

Yes, we can eliminate plastic pollution (by 2050)

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double by 2050. But in a study published in the journal Science, these same ...
Nature

Waste management won’t solve the plastics problem — we need to cut consumption

Machine learning has been used to turn a survey of local waste-management practices into a global inventory of plastic emissions. The data show that tackling plastic pollution will require reduced ...
New Orleans City Business

From Louisiana to Pennsylvania, tracing plastics pollution back to its source

While filming a documentary about oceans on a boat in the Pacific Ocean several years ago, producer and director Steve Cowan encountered a shocking scene. “We were surrounded from horizon to horizon ...
E&E

Los Angeles sues Pepsi, Coca-Cola over plastic pollution

Los Angeles is suing the nation’s two largest beverage brands for their contributions to plastic pollution, embracing the novel legal attacks launched by its home state California and New York. LA ...
Mongabay

Oil and plastic pollution from shipwreck raises concerns, legal scrutiny in India

The MSC ELSA-3 shipwreck, off Kerala’s coast in southern India, spilled oil and plastic pellets, with potential impacts on marine life, coastal ecosystems and fishing livelihoods. Gaps in maritime law ...
Grist

What would a Harris presidency mean for the plastics crisis?

Among the reasons Republicans think Vice President Kamala Harris is unfit for the country’s highest office: She “wants to get rid of plastic straws.” That’s according to Jason Miller, a senior adviser ...