Walking along the shoreline of the St. Lawrence River Thousand Islands, the beaches may seem scenic and pristine. However, upon closer inspection, a barely noticeable form of pollution is encroaching ...

Three Rivers Waterkeeper looking for plastic pollution in the Ohio River, in Monaca, Beaver County, Pa. Environmental groups and the state Department of Environmental Protection have reached a $2.6 ...

This Crain’s Forum on the emerging threat of microplastics pollution in the Great Lakes is a joint project of the newsrooms of Crain’s Chicago Business and Crain's Detroit Business. McDonald's Corp.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When the X-Press Pearl container ship caught fire and sank in the Indian Ocean in May ...

Environmental groups in Pennsylvania say they plan to sue expanded polystyrene maker Styropek USA over pellet pollution, alleging that its resin plant in Monaca, Pa., is illegally discharging "copious ...

Coolrec, an electronics recycling firm headquartered in the Netherlands, has opened its Coolrec Plastics Compounding plant in Emmen, Netherlands. The facility is expected to produce 10,000 tonnes of ...