The proposal cites health and accessibility concerns and could override local paper straw mandates statewide passed ...

In 2015, the video of a straw being removed from the nostril of a sea turtle reinforced efforts to eliminate plastic straws from the waste stream. The video went viral with images of the turtle ...

A thirsty world uses 500 million straws a day, with many of those coming from restaurants. That’s enough disposable straws to fill more than 46,400 large school buses per year. Milo Cress is working ...

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 announced after ...

Paper straws sit on a bar in San Francisco in 2018. President Trump has signed an executive order decrying the "irrational campaign against plastic straws" and directing federal agencies to stop ...

Plastic straw partisans are now on the offensive in the straw wars. Monday evening, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing federal agencies to halt their purchases of paper straws ...

President Trump has declared the last straw. Or at least the paper ones used by federal agencies. In an executive order this week, the president barred the federal government from buying paper straws ...

'Eco-friendly' paper drinking straws contain long-lasting and potentially toxic chemicals, a new study has concluded. "Eco-friendly" paper drinking straws contain long-lasting and potentially toxic ...