ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — There has long been a push to stop the use of plastic straws in favor of environmentally friendly ...

Plastic straws, once public enemy No. 1, are back in the government’s good graces. The news is hard to swallow for paper ...

Though they pollute oceans and harm marine life, Republican President Donald Trump signed an executive order this month to reverse a federal push away from plastic straws. He declared paper ...

When US President Donald Trump vowed to end the "ridiculous situation" of paper straws with an executive order recently, he noted he used "them many times, and on occasion, they break, they explode." ...

A St. Petersburg City Council member’s request to discuss lifting a municipal ban on plastic straws sparked multiple heated ...

Robert F Kennedy and Dr Martin Luther King to ending the federal procurement of paper straws in favor of plastic ones. The ...

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 ...

“Plastic is not part of our diet for a reason,” Leffel said. “No straws [would] be a better solution, because reducing waste ...

Sea turtle biologist and New York University Professor Genia Naro-Maciel writes that, while flimsy paper straws may not make ...