Trump signed an executive order this week in favor of plastic straws over paper ones. As the debate rages on, here’s why you ...

What to know about President Donald Trump’s executive order encouraging the federal government and consumers to buy plastic ...

Trump will drink his Diet Cokes with plastic straws, while human health and environmental activists are likely to try to step-up their campaigns against plastic and forever chemicals.

The environment is littered with single-use plastic food and beverage containers — water bottles, takeout containers, coffee lids, straws and shopping bags. Trump and Musk say they like working ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday, Feb. 10, encouraging the U.S. government and public to go back to ...

called Ending Procurement and Forced Use of Paper Straws, that would put an end to the "irrational campaign" against plastic drinking straws and would work toward a total ban on paper drinking straws.

“Crooked Joe’s MANDATE, ‘NO PLASTIC STRAWS, ONLY PAPER,’ IS DEAD! Enjoy your next drink without a straw that disgustingly dissolves in your mouth!!!” he wrote. Trump had made similar ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order aimed at encouraging the U.S. government and consumers to buy plastic drinking straws, pushing back ...