The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the same strict air pollution standards as incinerators.

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed Thursday to include microplastics and pharmaceuticals on a list of contaminants in drinking water for the first time, a step that could eventually lead to new limits on those substances for water utilities.

Global talks to slash plastic production and the toxic chemicals used to produce plastic products fell apart in Geneva this week.

Straws might seem insignificant, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade.

Nature wraps bananas and oranges in peels.

It’s a beloved Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling strings of beads or other trinkets to parade watchers.