At the base of the overturned train car, Jackie Medcalf scoops small plastic pellets from the muddy ground and deposits them in a mason jar. When it’s about halfway full, she caps the jar and ...

Nurdles spill into waterways, wash up on beaches, endanger wildlife and threaten water quality. A handful of nurdles can hint at hotspots and number of spills.

UNC-Chapel Hill is asking the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality to update its air permit to allow it to burn recycled paper-and-plastic pellets at its Cogeneration power plant on Cameron ...

LyondellBasell will begin the process of shuttering its Houston Ship Channel refinery this weekend. The company expects to ...