It will be a crime to provide plastic straws in California's mom and pop restaurants (not fast food chains), unless requested, if Gov. J. Brown signs bill A.B. (1884) into law. We are told this will save the planet from America's profligate destruction of the environment. It might even help diminish that waste-plastic, small continent … Continue reading California grasps at straws over the plastic island in ocean, but the global causes are hidden from naive Americans