Causes Photo by Taylor Noble on Unsplash Microplastics in Lake Erie highlight growing concern over potential health effects Microplastics are getting renewed attention amid broader concerns about potential health effects and and a hydro-fracking boom in the Midwest.
Causes Corps will take closer look at Formosa plant's impact on environment, minority residents in St. James Construction on an enormous $9.4 billion plastics plant must be delayed so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can do a more extensive review of the facility's impacts on the environment and nearby minority communities.
Solutions www.alleghenyfront.org Groups look to protect Pennsylvania's Lake Erie watershed Lake Erie supports fishing, boating, swimming and even a craft beer industry, but there are threats to the watershed. A new plan outlines solutions.
Causes www.fairwarning.org Tenacious citizens take on the plastics industry over an insidious pollutant Homegrown activists, tired of lax government enforcement and ineffectual industry self-policing, have stepped up to fight plastic pollution.
