The plastics industry is offering schools curricula that cast plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs.

The fossil fuel industry isn’t just raking in record profits amid the war with Iran. In California, it’s also spending big to oppose climate and worker-safety legislation. According to analyses by a c...

The ruling pauses a California law dictating how the recycling symbol is used, teeing up a First Amendment fight over environmental marketing.

The European Union’s cap-and-trade system has long been considered the gold standard for market-based emissions-reduction policies, and it’s influenced similar efforts from California to South Korea. ...

New research shows major lenders are accelerating their investment in Big Oil as the industry turns toward plastics and petrochemicals.

Will chemical recycling revolutionize the fashion industry, or is it just “an excuse to keep producing plastic clothes”?

A new label promises single-use cups are recyclable. But that doesn't mean they actually get recycled.

In this week's Top 5 we have lessons from apartheid, clever Claude, feeling bodies anew, the power of wax, and free mining.

"After years of concern over so-called “fluoro” waxes, the Milan Cortina Games will be the first Olympics without them."

A key source of speed is gone, as concerns over toxic “forever chemicals” reshape Olympic skiing and the science behind winning on snow.

At COP, the requirement that countries find consensus before taking action has stalled climate progress for decades. Experts say there's a better way.

In The Long Heat, Wim Carton and Andreas Malm argue that capitalism has turned the climate crisis into a business opportunity.

The lawsuit targets SC Johnson, owner of Ziploc bags, and Bimbo Bakeries, the country's biggest bread and snack food manufacturer.

A company agreed to install technology to watch for "nurdles," tiny plastic pellets used to make all manner of goods.

The technology is needed to limit global warming. But corporations are supporting it in lieu of emissions reductions.

Carbon storage “can no longer be considered an unlimited solution to bring our climate back to a safe level.”

Procedural hurdles once again foil progress on a global agreement to end plastic pollution.

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Despite strong evidence that plastics are harmful to people, oil-producing countries oppose action on human health.

This week, they’re advocating for a U.N. treaty to safeguard people’s basic rights.

As countries try to find agreement on plastic pollution, creative interventions are turning heads — and turning the conversation to health harms, fossil fuels, and false solutions.

Research shows the extent of plastic pollution today — and why the U.N. is negotiating a treaty to keep it from getting worse.

Environmental groups are concerned that rich countries are exporting plastic to poor countries in the form of “refuse-derived fuel.”

A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

Once Trump signs the megabill, the country will no longer have a federal plan to address the climate crisis.

Experts say the most impactful decisions have enabled the Trump administration to gut the federal workforce and freeze funding.

Experts say repealing the "Roadless Rule" won't help stop fires, but it will help loggers.

A new study finds that outlawing or taxing plastic bags reduces beach litter.

Republicans want to make 250 million acres of public lands eligible for sale to housing developers.

By removing words like "ESG" and "sustainable" from their names, funds can keep investing in fossil fuels despite the EU greenwash rules

In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed only 0.001% of the deep seafloor, leaving 66% of planet Earth unseen.

“There’s this stigma that if you’re homeless, then you’re useless. But collecting bottles and cans — it is work.”

A new report casts doubt on industry narratives about the “revolutionary” technology.

A convoluted credit system allows companies to label virgin plastic as recycled. Here's how it works.

People in Asia are exposed to levels up to six times higher than their counterparts in the West.

It’s not clear who will now write the Congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment — or whether it will be written at all.

Modeling suggests it will only reduce emissions up to 10 percent by 2030.

Shifting political and regulatory winds have led to fewer shareholder resolutions on environmental and social issues.

The landmark Juliana v. United States sparked a global movement to defend children's rights to a healthy climate, a campaign that's already scored two wins.

Experts called the verdict “beyond punitive.” The organization plans to appeal and has already filed a countersuit in Europe.

Industry groups expressed concerns about California’s landmark plastic pollution law in the weeks before regulators were supposed to begin enforcing it.

The justices shrugged off a complaint described by legal experts as a “political stunt.”

In Western legal systems, arguments against pollution or the destruction of the environment tend to focus exclusively on people: It’s wrong to contaminate a river, for example, because certain humans ...

Environmental groups say state and international policymakers must step up to stop fossil fuel financing.

Green groups say it’s a “clear admission” that the plastic ones aren’t recyclable.