The announcement follows U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order, signed earlier last week, that reversed the Biden ...

The presence of PFAS is concerning for two reasons: one, studies show that exposure to certain levels may lead to adverse ...

The common alternative: paper straws. “We’re going back to plastic straws. (Paper straws) don’t work. They break. They explode If something’s hot. They don’t last very long, like a ...

Washington state has a law prohibiting restaurants from automatically giving customers plastic utensils. Here’s how it will ...

President Trump vowed to sign an executive order ending a Biden-era effort to phase out single-use plastics — including ...

Coincidence or not, the City Commission and President Donald Trump both took action Monday on drinking straws: the plastic ...

It’s a fair question. But we have a prior question: Were not paper straws a picayune issue for then-President Joe Biden to take on in 2021 amid a migrant crisis, raging inflation, and multiple ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is moving to reverse a federal push away from plastic straws, declaring that paper ...

Donald Trump stressed paper straws "don't work" and he said the US will move back to plastic straws instead, reversing work ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over ...