The US criticized the EU fines on Apple and Meta, calling them “economic extortion." It also attacked the DMA legislation.

Israeli company Plastic Back, which chemically reverse-engineers plastic waste for upcycling, has announced a strategic partnership with a US-based recycler to establish the first-of-its-kind ...

A federal court in Boston has sentenced Russia-linked CLS Global for criminal charges related to market manipulation, ordering it to pay a $428,000 fine.

In the February Plastics in Politics Live, Plastics News editors Don Loepp and Steve Toloken discussed recent shifts in U.S. plastics policy, including Trump's executive order reversing Biden-era ...

Hot on the heels of a new nationwide poll revealing overwhelming US voter support for policies that reduce single-use plastics, the new administration revealed its latest counterintuitive edict: to ...

Cognosphere, the US subsidiary of Genshin Impact developer miHoYo, agreed to a $20 million settlement over allegations of "deceptive marketing" in the game’s gacha system and violations of child ...

The Biden administration has backtracked from supporting a cap on plastic production as part of the United Nations’ global plastics treaty. According to representatives from five environmental ...

The US imposed a US$500,000 in mitigated penalty against GlobalFoundries for shipments of semiconductors to entity-listed Chinese firms as the US works to close sanctions loopholes.

New US Support for Global Production Limits Has the Plastics Industry in a Tizzy The Biden administration’s reversal could prove influential in upcoming treaty talks.

In closed-door briefings with industry and advocacy groups on Aug. 14, a White House representative announced that the US is no longer against supporting global goals to cap plastic production ...

The U.S. government is shifting its position on a contentious point in the plastics treaty, and now backs global targets limiting plastic production.

In a two-step of ideas and action, the White House has released a report that outlines a government-wide approach for addressing plastic pollution and announced that buying single-use plastics for ...