Tag: pollution

“Today we make history; tomorrow we focus on ensuring our SB 54 goals to reduce plastic pollution are met.”

"The EPA is doing the bare minimum it can and that's putting people's health at risk," said the policy director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

“We urge you to be the climate and public health champion that port and coastal communities need by committing to immediately reduce and completely eliminate maritime emissions this decade."

The bill would "clean up the shipping industry, protect the health of port communities, address environmental injustice, and provide solutions to the climate crisis."

While 80 percent of wastewater in the world is not treated, even in developed countries treatment facilities are often unable to filter out dangerous bugs.

A new report from the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) finds the country has fallen far short of the Clean Water Act's goal.

The research comes on the heels of other recent studies showing microplastics having a negative impact on human cells.

Many thousands of human-made chemicals and synthetic pollutants are circulating throughout our world, with new ones entering production all the time —...

Every time you stick a load of clothes into a tumble dryer, you may be releasing hundreds of thousands of microfibers into...

The real problem is not waste, but plastic itself.