Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Francis Chung/POLITICO President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general pick vowed to be independent when a Democratic senator urged her not to put environmental enforcement on the backburner. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island noted during Pam...

Our reliance on plastic products, coupled with their longevity in the environment, where they break down into smaller fragments, has led to microplastic pollution becoming a global and ubiquitous problem. The management of microplastics is complex. Microplastics are diverse in their physical and chemical structure, have many routes to environmental impact and there are difficulties...

President Biden’s assertion that he is “handing over” a stronger country to President-elect Donald Trump is false, as the world is a more dangerous place due to a ‘permissiv…