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EU Votes to Ban Plastic Straws and Cutlery While Imposing Massive Mandates on Plastic Companies

The European Union voted Wednesday to ban all single-use plastic items, including straws, stirrers and cutlery.

California's Set to Implement More Than 1,000 New Laws in 2019

More than 1,000 new laws are set to go into effect in California this year, ranging from kinda-okay rules to completely ridiculous ones. But regardless of how you feel about each new regulation, one thing’s...

The Environment Is Worth Preserving, But It's Not the Government's Job to Do It

Believe it or not, it is possible, even in our polarized society, to hold two thoughts in one’s head at the same time: that the environment is worth the effort to preserve, and that preserving it...

First They Came For Your Straws, Now They Want Your Party Balloons

Cities across the nation like Seattle, San Francisco, and even entire countries like the United Kingdom have made moves to ban single-use plastic straws to fight the ever-growing plastic pollution issue....

Santa Barbara Assemblyman: 'We Have to Regulate Every Aspect of Peoples' Lives'

A Santa Barbara Assemblyman recently made the profound mistake of actually expressing what most of us know leftists believe, that people must be controlled, in every regard. Now, he's sorry people didn't...