Joseph Winters

Plastic straws have become an international emblem of the harms of plastic pollution, and Trump's order is the latest salvo in a culture war that pits care for the environment against values like masculinity and freedom.

The lawsuit, filed on the same day as a similar lawsuit by environmental groups, follows a two-year investigation into what the California attorney general has called the petrochemical industry’s "decades-long deception campaign" over the sustainability of plastics and the feasibility of plastics recycling.