Elizabeth Royte

Plastic-pouch food packaging is showing up everywhere—except at recycling facilities.

As oil trains derail across the United States, a windswept—and vulnerable—stretch of Montana’s Glacier National Park underscores the folly of transporting crude by rail.

You make it, you pay. Why should taxpayers foot the bill for recycling all of that wasteful plastic?

Elizabeth Royte finds herself stranded in Williston, North Dakota, at the heart of a new oil boom in the United States.