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Pacifica Beach Coalition volunteers Alec Juntura, 21, foreground left, and Kimmy Tran, 20, clean trash near Sharp Park Beach in Pacifica, Calif., Wednesday, March 17, 2021.

Op-Eds

To address plastic pollution, we need more than symbolic actions

Angela Logomasini -

November 23, 2021 5:00 am

Union members targeted any developer who had Wegmans as a tenant, Waugh Chapel South, LLC claimed in its case. (AP File)

News

Wegmans to eliminate use of plastic bags in several northern Virginia counties

Elizabeth Faddis -

November 16, 2021 9:11 pm

A Happy Meal featuring non-fat chocolate milk and a cheeseburger with fries, are arranged for a photo at a McDonald's restaurant in Brandon, Miss., Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018.

News

McDonald’s begins to phase out plastic Happy Meal toys

Asher Notheis -

September 21, 2021 3:47 pm

In this Oct. 22, 2019, photo, plastic and other marine debris sits on the beach on Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. In one of the most remote places on Earth, Midway Atoll is a wildlife sanctuary that should be a safe haven for seabirds and other marine animals. Instead, creatures here struggle to survive as their bellies fill with plastic from faraway places.

Op-Eds

I’m a plastics industry CEO. We have a responsibility for plastic waste

Tony Radoszewski -

July 5, 2021 4:00 am

This Sept. 6, 2011 photo, shows a Smithfield ham at a grocery store in Richardson, Texas. Smithfield Foods Inc.'s fiscal first-quarter net income rose 8 percent, as the world's biggest hog producer charged higher prices and sold more packaged meats. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Healthcare

FDA: Coronavirus not spread via food or food packaging

David Hogberg -

February 18, 2021 8:14 pm

Republicans and Democrats are more divided over the issue of climate change going into the November election, but support more wind and solar. (iStock Photo)

Business

Bipartisan duo of senators team up to get plastics out of the ocean

Abby Smith -

January 1, 2021 4:00 am

The Energy Department is collaborating with the private sector to accelerate energy efficient technologies that reduce plastic waste in oceans and landfills.

Energy and Environment

In swing-state Florida, Trump officials tout plan to keep plastics out of oceans

Abby Smith -

October 19, 2020 7:41 pm

Beltway Confidential

Plastic bag bans aren’t helping us fight against coronavirus

Angela Logomasini -

March 18, 2020 7:42 pm

Politics

Afternoon Links: Snitches, Straw Bans, and Spurned Conspiracy Theorists

Jim Swift -

July 25, 2018 8:44 pm

Politics

Afternoon Links: Lunch With the Commish, Terrorists and the Environment, and a Causehead CEO

Jim Swift -

July 16, 2018 9:30 pm

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