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He Wanted to Track Microplastics in the Sea. The E.P.A. Fired Him.

Microplastics aren’t regulated or well tracked. “There’s limited data, particularly from real world cases” like a fish farm, said Aron Stubbins, a professor in marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University in Boston who studies the global distribution of microplastics in the ocean.