The order instructs federal agencies to stop purchasing paper straws “and otherwise ensure that paper straws are no longer provided within agency buildings.” The move targets a Biden administration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Feb. 10, President Donald Trump issued an executive order ending the procurement and use of paper straws at federal agencies.

Blumenthal Performing Arts in Charlotte has become the latest in a growing list of groups saying it plans to stop using plastic straws at its venues, a movement aimed at helping the environment. Bans ...

Trump signed an executive order forbidding the federal government to purchase paper straws. He’s also tasking the executive branch with developing a “National Strategy to End the Use of Paper Straws” ...

A decade ago, a video of a sea turtle with a plastic straw stuck in its nostril went viral, spurring a wave of activism aimed at curtailing plastic pollution. The disposable plastic straw became the ...

STUART, Fla. — Businesses in Stuart can once again use plastic straws after a more than five-year ban was repealed by commissioners this week. Commissioners voted 3-2 Monday to repeal the ordinance, ...

The common plastic beverage straw appears to be on the outs. Seemingly every day another city or company or celebrity vows to say no to straws because of the terrible ecological damage that disposable ...