No more plastic bags? Two bills introduced in the California legislature last week want to make the state’s bag ban even stronger. For nearly a decade, Senate Bill 270 has banned California ...

California lawmakers have advanced a pair of bills that would ban stores from handing out multi-use plastic bags. Thinner single-use plastic bags, as opposed to the thicker multi-use kind, are ...

ORINDA, Calif. -- An effort to ban the use of all plastic bags in grocery stores in California is moving forward. AB 2236 and SB 1053, an identical set of bills, passed each House on May 21 with ...

Plastic bags at stores across California could soon become a relic of the past after lawmakers passed two bills that would expand the state's existing single-use bag ban to include the "recyclable ...

California bills to ban plastic ‘reusable’ shopping bags move forward by: Danielle Dawson. Posted: Aug 29, 2024 / 10:32 PM PDT. Updated: Aug 30, 2024 / 03:12 PM PDT.

Spending bills are supposed to begin in the House, and so to make this latest stopgap measure work, senators substituted the spending bill into a House-passed bill originally having to do with the ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed several bills last month aimed at reducing plastic and polystyrene use. Two other bills environmental advocates say are important steps to improving reusable systems and m… ...

The bill would prohibit stores from handing out disposable plastic bags at checkout, and instead require them to charge 10 cents for a paper or reusable bag. (The Senate passed a similar bill in ...

Two bills in the Oregon Legislature would address microplastic pollution. ... Senate Bill 551 would ban thicker "reusable" plastic bags and restrict single-use plastics in restaurants and hotels.