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Chevron Phillips to report plastic pellet spills, shareholder says

Less than two weeks after Exxon Mobil became the first major oil company to agree to report plastic pellet pollution to investors, another major petrochemical company has followed suit under pressure from activist shareholders.

After initial push back from its owners, The Woodlands-based Chevron Phillips Chemical has agreed to start reporting plastic pellet spill in annual sustainability report out in June, according to the shareholder group As You Sow. The move comes as the petrochemical industry  is under pressure from growing public outcry over millions of tons of plastic waste clogging waterways and oceans. Read Full Article - Houston Chronicle, April 9, 2019