The executive order aimed at encouraging the US government and consumers to buy plastic drinking straws is part of a broader weakening of environmental commitments by Trump
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“We’re going back to plastic straws,” Trump told reporters at the White House as he signed the order, saying that paper straws “don’t work.” Monday’s executive order was part of a broader weakening of environmental commitments by Trump, who in one of the first acts of his second term, removed the United States from the Paris climate agreement for the second time.
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