The American Chemistry Council

What do cigarettes and single-use plastics have in common? Most cigarettes have a single-use plastic filter -- so smokers get a dose of petrochemical...

Over six billion credit cards are produced each year worldwide. That is enough to make over 50 stacks of cards higher than Mt. Everest. Too bad these are not recyclable.

The old 3 Rs: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle don't begin to deal with the problem of synthetic pollution made from petrochemicals that has steadily increased since its introduction in the late 1950's.

Why is it that the average American hasn't yet come to associate single-use plastic bags with the terrible environmental and economic toll these bags exact?

There is always a sector of the public that demands Government protect it from all risks. There is also, always a sector of Industry that will not ch...

The American Chemistry Council has been making hay with its earth-shattering findings that unwashed reusable bags can be contaminated with a variety of bacterial pathogens, including Salmonella.

From what the chemical and packaging industries have been saying in response to questions about the safety of certain products, American innovation may be in trouble.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is ushering in a new era of openness, so says the EPA. The agency will henceforth disallow the shielding of disquieting test data on known chemicals behind the cloak of "confidential business information."

Perhaps Sparkletts is promoting an alliance with a cancer charity as a PR strategy to distract consumers from Sparkletts' more significant association with their bottles, which are made with a known carcinogen -- BPA.

Have the historical competing interests finally converged? Can the economy and the environment be BFF?

We have a right to know what's in us, no matter how disturbing.

You, like millions of other Americans, probably regularly use and consume products made with Bisphenol A (BPA), a toxic chemical that is a $6 billion global industry.