The Last Straw is a local business seeking to impact single-use plastic pollution. Credit: Provided Charleston entrepreneur Tom Crowley is on a mission to end single-use plastic pollution by ...

Nobody wants plastic pollution. That doesn’t mean poorly considered and heavy-handed governmental actions are the solution. This includes misguided single-use plastic bans (e.g., bans on plastic ...

Senate Bill 551 would ban thicker "reusable" plastic bags and restrict single-use plastics in restaurants and hotels. Senate Bill 526 would require new washing machines to have microfiber filters to ...

White House goal to restrict plastic in some federal procurement situations gets mixed reviews from trade groups, NGOs. While some aspects of the proposed federal policy may involve avoiding plastic, ...

An appellate panel will have to decide whether maritime jurisdiction applies to the water pollution claims against the ...

The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) last week issued the first-ever report out of the White House addressing plastic pollution, “Mobilizing Federal Action on Plastic Pollution: Progress, ...

California's long anticipated single-use plastic law is now in effect. Environmentalists and anti-waste activists are suing, ...

As we have seen this summer, the climate crisis and its extreme weather events are already upon us, causing property damage, jeopardizing our infrastructure and endangering public health. One way to ...

Enforcement teams targeted vendors, stockists and manufacturers as agencies stepped up inspections and awareness campaigns citywide.

Plastics are woven into every aspect of our lives, but what was once the poster child for convenience is fast becoming a pariah product. The era of single-use plastic must end; banning it is the only ...