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Microplastics found in 80 per cent of Scottish coastal waters in last two years

Data released under freedom of information law shows the results of sampling for microplastics in Scottish seas in 2021 and 2022.

Politics

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Uneasy state of affairs: Scotland's use of American shale gas

Despite a ban on fracking, Scotland imports shale gas from Pennsylvania for its plastics industry. This has some activists saying 'no fracking here, no fracking anywhere.'

Causes

$Shale gas off-ramp: Pa.’s fracking boom produces a glut of ethane that’s helping fuel plastics production overseas$

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Shale gas off-ramp: Pa.’s fracking boom produces a glut of ethane that’s helping fuel plastics production overseas

The path of a global supply chain often begins in western Pennsylvania and winds up half a world away.

The ‘dirty dozen’ companies that pollute Scotland

Scotland’s most polluting companies have been named and shamed in a new database from the government’s Scottish Environment Protection Agency.

Causes

$Energy group Ineos to challenge Scotland's ban on fracking$

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Energy group Ineos to challenge Scotland's ban on fracking

Energy group Ineos has applied to launch a legal challenge to the Scottish government's ban on onshore unconventional oil and gas development in Scotland, known as "fracking", arguing the ban was imposed unlawfully.

ORIGINAL REPORTING

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Microplastics found in 80 per cent of Scottish coastal waters in last two years

Uneasy state of affairs: Scotland's use of American shale gas

Shale gas off-ramp: Pa.’s fracking boom produces a glut of ethane that’s helping fuel plastics production overseas

The ‘dirty dozen’ companies that pollute Scotland

Energy group Ineos to challenge Scotland's ban on fracking

Trump administration accelerates Alabama coal expansion mostly for foreign steel markets

Louisiana expands LNG exports as Trump fast-tracks new terminal permits

UK residents take government’s climate strategy to European human rights court

How fragile power grids and extreme weather combined to cause Europe’s biggest blackout in decades

As regenerative agriculture gains momentum, report warns of “greenwashing”

Nuclear revival plan faces obstacles at Tennessee Valley Authority

Mark Carney’s rise places Trump between two quiet climate champions

Energy Star program faces shutdown as EPA reorganizes under Trump administration