President Donald Trump's executive order banning paper straws might be the biggest bi-partisan win of his presidency and to quote former President Joe Biden, "that's not hyperbole." Let’s face it ...

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There are a lot of pressing national issues President Trump has yet to address, but he has weighed in on the slightly less urgent matter of paper straws. On Monday evening, Trump directed the federal ...

Half a billion straws are used in the United States every day, according to a popular — but perhaps not the most scientific — estimate. The biggest buyer: the federal government, which buys more ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to end the federal procurement of paper straws. The order, which claims that paper straws are “nonfunctional” and says it wants to end the ...

The paper straw, Guy Spinelli was sure, would be the way of the future. After 50 years toiling in the country’s paper mills, the 75-year-old plunked his life savings into creating a “24 hours strong” ...

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 ...

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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Monday, Donald Trump signed an ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Monday he is banning federal use of paper straws, saying they “don’t work” and don’t last very long. Instead he wants the government to exclusively move ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is moving to reverse a federal push away from plastic straws, declaring that paper straws “don’t work” and don’t last very long. “It’s a ridiculous situation. We’re ...