An unused Union Pacific (UP) rail yard located in the heart of Kansas City has a renewed lease on life with the recent opening of a rail transload facility in a critical Midwest transportation ...

This story is part of a joint investigation with NPR that includes the documentary Plastic Wars, which aired March 31, 2020, on PBS. Stream the film. Look on the side of a highway sometime and you ...

LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — Local community leaders are working to raise awareness of plastic pellet pollution, a problem that remains prevalent in the Charleston area. Advocates from the Public ...

Today, the Council adopted its position ('general approach') on a regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets – the industrial raw materials used to make plastic products – to the environment ...

Today, the Council adopted the regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets into the environment, following a provisional agreement with the European Parliament. The new regulation aims to ...

A recent spill of bio-beads – small plastic pellets used by some wastewater treatment facilities since the 1990s – has brought renewed attention to a problem that has been quietly accumulating in ...