The Times’ June 6 editorial, “California’s failure to ban polystyrene means cities like Los Angeles need to step up,” encourages city governments to pursue a misguided ban on one type of food-service ...

ALBANY — Those polystyrene clam shell containers for take-home food, Styrofoam cups from restaurants and the countless "packing peanuts" will go the way of plastic grocery bags under a new New York ...

Maine Gov. Janet Mills has enacted a bill making her state the first to ban single-use food and drink containers made from polystyrene foam. The legislation, which Mills signed into law Tuesday, will ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – The leaders of the Joint Committee on Public Health and representatives of the food container industry could not see eye-to-eye Tuesday during a hearing on bills to restrict the use of ...