CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Companies that process tiny plastic pellets may soon be under new regulations. The South Carolina Senate passed a bill this week to keep the so-called “nurdles” from spilling ...

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 Avenue ...

A view of the cogeneration plant operated by the University of North Carolina, located a half-mile from the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News This story originally ...

Trex, a manufacturer of high-performance wood-alternative decking and railing headquartered in Winchester, Virginia, has announced that its linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) pellets have ...

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality says Formosa Plastics Corp. USA's discharge violations are outside its water rights jurisdiction despite it being the authority FPC USA was ordered to ...

A water company has vowed to improve its understanding of the water treatment process after millions of plastic pellets washed up on an East Sussex beach. Southern Water has said it is "highly likely" ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—On a Friday afternoon in mid-January, college students hugged themselves as they lumbered through the University of North Carolina campus. Temperatures teetered just above freezing.