The culture wars over plastic straws came roaring back Friday, as President Donald Trump vowed to sign an executive order next week ending a Biden-era effort to phase them out by 2027. Paper ...

Instead he wants the government to exclusively move to plastic. “It’s a ridiculous situation. We’re going back to plastic straws,” Trump said as he signed an executive order to reverse ...

When US President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to return to plastic straws, claiming the paper version is ...

Nuñez was one of the first people to start advocating for ditching plastic straws, back in 2009. In the early days, pre-turtle video, there were a lot of doubters, even in the world of ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Feb. 10 to stop the federal government from purchasing paper straws and to create a National Strategy to End the Use of Paper Straws. The order ...

Donald Trump recently surprised the world again by signing an action to end what he describes as the "forced use" of paper straws. Although there is some merit in the argument the White House presents ...

The US government has scrapped paper straws to go back to plastic. So why are the plastic variety restricted in many ...

Researchers reconstructed the history of an unusual 30-year-old bird nest based on the expiration dates printed on plastic ...

CalRecycle regulators, business and environmental groups have been working on rules to regulate the plastic phase-out since ...

Trump signed an executive order this week in favor of plastic straws over paper ones. As the debate rages on, here’s why you really don’t need straws.