President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday encouraging both the federal government and American consumers to buy plastic drinking straws — a formal rebuke of former President Joe Biden’s ...

President Donald Trump has said he will end what he called a “ridiculous” Biden-era push to phase out single-use plastics in federal agencies by 2035 in efforts to combat plastic pollution, claiming ...

They’re grasping for straws. Devout paper straw enthusiasts are speaking out as public opinion about the environmentally friendly sipper shifts to favor plastic. Last month, President Donald Trump ...

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Half a billion straws are used in the United States every day, according to a popular — but perhaps not the most scientific — estimate. The biggest buyer: the federal government, which buys more ...

"I don't think plastic is going to affect a shark very much, as they're munching their way through the ocean," Trump reportedly said after signing the order Kimberlee Speakman is a Writer-Reporter on ...

As bans on single-use plastics expand globally, paper and bioplastic straws have become common replacements. Yet, consumer complaints about their performance are frequent. A new study by researchers ...

Paper straws are, objectively, the worst. There’s the race against the clock to use them before they turn to mush, the temperature problem — good for neither hot nor frozen — and, worst of all, the ...