They’re grasping for straws. Devout paper straw enthusiasts are speaking out as public opinion about the environmentally ...

The president claimed plastic straws won’t “affect a shark very much.” But he’d previously declared, “I hope all the sharks die.” ...

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

Anti–plastic straw policies started appearing in the early 2010s and really took off toward the end of the decade when large blue cities and a few states either banned their distribution or ...

Later, in 2015, a video of a marine biologist extracting a plastic straw out of a turtle’s nostril helped turbochange the anti-straw movement, catalyzing plastic straw bans around the world ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. In 2015, video of a marine biologist pulling a plastic straw out of a turtle's nose sparked outrage worldwide ...