HHS and EPA announce a joint effort to tackle microplastics and pharmaceuticals in the nation's water supply, citing a ...

Plastic pollution has become one of the defining environmental issues of modern life, and microplastics are now known to ...

The Environmental Protection Agency also added microplastics to its contaminant candidate list for the first time.

The program will be called STOMP, which stands for "Systemic Targeting of MicroPlastics." ...

A new study from NYU Langone Health partially attributed close to 2 million preterm births in 2018 — about 8% of the world’s ...

A new study has found that microplastics have been found in bile. Here is what this means for your body and why it should ...

Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin are declaring a war on microplastics.

A review study conducted by Brazilian researchers found growing evidence that microplastics can reach and build up in human bone tissue, potentially disrupting bone metabolism. Lab and animal studies ...

Four main contaminant groups will be targeted: microplastics, pharmaceuticals, PFAS (or "forever chemicals") and disinfection ...

At the briefing, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the joint action a “turning point,” celebrating how the EPA ...

The Trump administration announced a new initiative to tackle microplastics in the environment. It is a waste of time and ...

Microplastics scientists are finding the tiny particles everywhere, even in their own research laboratories. So how do they ...