New White House Action Will Help Unravel Plastic Pollution Crisis

Plastic is a major contributor to climate change, as the primary raw materials used in its creation are coal, natural gas, and crude oil—all ...

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Releases New Strategy ...

Communities across the United States and around the world are facing a plastic pollution crisis. Plastic production and waste have doubled ...

White House Releases New Strategy for Action on Plastic Pollution

The White House released a new strategy for US Federal Government action on plastic pollution. It is their most comprehensive plan to date, yet critical gaps ...

mobilizing federal action on plastic pollution: progress, principles

Plastic waste has also doubled in that time, and is now found almost everywhere on our planet, from floating garbage patches in the. Pacific Ocean to nearly ...

Anne Kapuscinski on LinkedIn: New White House Action Will Help ...

The White House comprehensive strategy to end plastics pollution is a crucial step towards stopping the myriad harmful impacts of plastic ...

Trump's re-election could unravel US role in global plastic treaty talks

With Trump poised to retake the White House, U.S. support for cutting plastic production could shift sharply, threatening efforts for a ...

White House releases new strategy to tackle plastic pollution - PIRG

The multi-pronged strategy includes goals to phase out the federal procurement of single-use plastics from food operations, events and packaging by 2027.

White House Announces New Strategy on Plastics Pollution | Insights

Interagency Policy Committee on Plastic Pollution and a Circular Economy released "Mobilizing Federal Action on Plastic Pollution: Progress, ...

Eleanore Humphries, MPA on LinkedIn: New White House Action ...

In Newsweek today -- Keith Sanford of Tennessee Aquarium and Julie Packard of Monterey Bay Aquarium celebrate The White House's new targets, ...

Newsweek Opinion on X: "New White House Action Will Help ...

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White House Strategy Tackles Single-Use Plastic - BioCycle

In July 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration released the first comprehensive, government-wide strategy to target plastic pollution at the ...

Sullivan, House Republicans Urge Biden-Harris Admin to Improve ...

US Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging the Biden-Harris administration to press for improvements to a ...

#PlasticFreePresident: Priority Plastic Actions for President Biden's ...

The world faces an indisputable plastic pollution crisis. This plan outlines eight steps the President can take that will immediately set the nation on a ...

Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Ecosystem Services, Sustainable ...

Plastic pollution is ubiquitous in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Plastic waste exposed to the environment creates problems and is of significant concern ...

The fundamental links between climate change and marine plastic ...

Third, global warming alone has demonstrable catastrophic consequences for the marine environment, while the impacts of plastic pollution are ...

New microplastics research hub aims to unravel health impact in ...

A new Rochester-based research center will study the lifecycle of microplastics, including its origin as plastic waste, distribution, and movement in the Great ...

Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution - Science

We modeled stocks and flows of municipal solid waste and four sources of microplastics through the global plastic system for five scenarios between 2016 and ...

Nearly 3 Billion Birds Gone - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Read the Full Study Published online in Science, Sept. 2019. Download Feature Story In Living Bird magazine Read It Help Birds With 7 Simple ...

Microplastics: A Real Global Threat for Environment and Food Safety

Microplastics are small plastic particles that come from the degradation of plastics, ubiquitous in nature and therefore affect both wildlife and humans.

Live Briefing: Nations gather for U.N. climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan

The U.N. Climate Change Conference begins a year after a deal to phase out fossil fuels. COP29 president Mukhtar Babayev opened the summit ...