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With Donald Trump announcing plans to bring back plastic straws because he doesn't like paper ones, attention has turned to the potential public health risks of the move. The Republican president is ...

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The US Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect the public from a dangerous flame retardant — decabromodiphenyl ether, or decaBDE — according to a lawsuit filed this week on behalf of ...

Since negotiations for a United Nations treaty to address plastic pollution began more than three years ago, protecting human health has risen to the top of many countries’ priority lists. This is ...

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After draining a water bottle, it might be tempting to fill it back up from the tap without a second thought. But can you really reuse plastic water bottles? Plastic bottles don't seem to be going ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In 2019, a toxicologist named Matthew Campen drove into the wilderness of ...