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Plastic bags are killing horses and cows across the state. What’s Texas to do?

Texas Tribune: A year after the Texas Supreme Court dealt a death blow to municipal bans on plastic bags, legislative efforts to revive them have fallen flat, and ranchers, city leaders and environmental groups say plastic bag litter is as big a problem as ever.

ExxonMobil’s Gulf Coast Growth Ventures project gets TCEQ approval

Corpus Christi Caller Times: Environmental groups warned of toxic emissions coming from the plant and had hoped the TCEQ would have required more air-quality monitoring at the facility’s fence line.

Texas part of national push for laws promoting fledgling chemical recycling industry

Houston Chronicle: The legislation was opposed by environmental groups, which argued that chemical recycling projects produce additional air pollution without significantly decreasing plastic waste.

A Global Plastic Trash Crisis Is Looming

Texas Public Radio: While it’s been a game changer in terms of facilitating medical, technological and safety advances, plastic has also become a major problem for the planet as waste continues to accumulate.

Opponents say planned ExxonMobil plastics plant would devastate Gulf Coast environment

Corpus Christi Caller-Times: A proposed plastics manufacturing facility in San Patricio County would be an environmental nightmare and fall short of its economic forecasts, according to environmental groups.

Op-Ed: This new coastal alliance aims to protect South Texas’ natural gifts

Corpus Christi Caller-Times Op-Ed: The quality of life in the Coastal Bend now faces its greatest challenge. It has been targeted as fertile ground for an industrial build-out that will impact the entire region.

Op-Ed: Why Texas should ban plastic bags

Houston Chronicle Op-Ed: Plastic pollution is a serious problem. Let’s stop holding on so tightly to plastic bags — we’re better without them, and there’s no time like the present to act.

Starbucks is replacing plastic straws with ‘sippy cup’ lids

CBS Austin: Starbucks announced on Monday it’s getting rid of its instantly recognizable green plastic straws, which contribute to ocean pollution and can be dangerous to marine life.

Austin Says It Will No Longer Enforce Plastic Bag Ban, After Texas Supreme Court Ruling

KUT News Austin: The City of Austin says it will no longer enforce a ban on single-use plastic bags at most retail outlets, following a state Supreme Court ruling last month that struck down Laredo’s bag ban.

Two Dallas Bars Ditching Plastic Straws

GreenSource DFW: Two Dallas bar owners recently announced they are switching from plastic to paper straws this month.