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Plastics

A cemetery stands in stark contrast to the chemical plants that surround it on Oct. 15, 2013. 'Cancer Alley' is one of the most polluted areas of the United States and lies along the once pristine Mississippi River that stretches some 80 miles from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, where a dense concentration of oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and other chemical industries reside alongside suburban homes. Credit: Giles Clarke/Getty Images

Does Another Plastics Plant in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ Make Sense? A New Report Says No

By James Bruggers
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) speaks alongside a bipartisan group of Democrat and Republican members of Congress as they announce a proposal for a Covid-19 relief bill on Capitol Hill on Dec. 14, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

The Senate’s New Point Man on Climate Has Been the Democrats’ Most Fossil Fuel-Friendly Senator

By James Bruggers
A collaboration between Thailand’s PTT Global Chemical America and South Korea’s Daelim Industrial has been planning to construct a $5.7 billion plastics manufacturing plant at this site, as it was in February 2019, in Belmont County, Ohio.

Developers Put a Plastics Plant in Ohio on Indefinite Hold, Citing the Covid-19 Pandemic

By James Bruggers
Towers of flame shoot skyward from the Mont Belvieu, Texas, petroleum plant explosion on Nov. 5, 1985. Credit: Bettman/Getty Images

For the Ohio River Valley, an Ethane Storage Facility in Texas Is Either a Model or a Cautionary Tale

By James Bruggers
New York Mayor Bill De Blasio hands out reusable bags on Feb. 28, 2020, ahead of a plastic bag ban, The ban was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic

Polluting Industries Cash-In on COVID, Harming Climate in the Process

By Dan Gearino, Georgina Gustin, James Bruggers, Kristoffer Tigue
A collaboration between Thailand’s PTT Global Chemical America and South Korea’s Daelim Industrial has been planning to construct a $5.7 billion plastics manufacturing plant at this site, as it was in February 2019, in Belmont County, Ohio.

Market Headwinds Buffet Appalachia’s Future as a Center for Petrochemicals

By James Bruggers
Construction at an ethene cracker plant on the Ohio River for making the building blocks of plastics. Credit: James Bruggers

Congressional Democrats Join the Debate Over Plastics’ Booming Future

By James Bruggers
People pick up plastic waste on a beach. Credit: Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty Images

Booming Plastics Industry Faces Backlash as Data About Environmental Harm Grows

By James Bruggers
Construction at an ethene cracker plant on the Ohio River for making the building blocks of plastics. Credit: James Bruggers

House Votes to Block Trump from Using Clean Energy Funds to Back Fossil Fuels Project

By James Bruggers

What’s Worrying the Plastics Industry? Your Reaction to All That Waste, for One

By James Bruggers
Pre-production plastic pellets, known as nurdles, that had spilled from a train car. Credit: Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Investors Pressure Oil Giants on Ocean Plastics Pollution

By David Hasemyer
Plastic waste. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

4 Ways to Cut Plastic’s Growing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Phil McKenna
Ethane cracker plant. Credit: James Bruggers

Plastics: The New Coal in Appalachia?

By James Bruggers

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