President Donald Trump's waded into the contentious debate over paper versus plastic straws with an executive order Monday favoring the plastic variety. The president ordered federal agency and ...

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 ...

A decade ago, a video of a sea turtle with a plastic straw stuck in its nostril went viral, spurring a wave of activism aimed at curtailing plastic pollution. The disposable plastic straw became ...

President Donald Trump is known to drink many Diet Cokes, but one thing you’re not likely to ever see him using again is a paper straw. “We’re going back to plastic straws,” Trump ...

Devout paper straw enthusiasts are speaking out as public opinion about the environmentally friendly sipper shifts to favor plastic. Last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order ...

The announcement, made on Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, criticized paper straws as ineffective and signalled a ...

Why the humble straw “issue” has so incensed the present administration and triggered an executive order more or less banning paper straws from federal buildings, in favor of plastic ones, is ...

A decade ago, a video of a sea turtle with a plastic straw stuck in its nostril went viral, spurring a wave of activism aimed at curtailing plastic pollution. The disposable plastic straw became the ...