August 23, 2014 – Los Angeles Times –
“There’s logic missing in the battle of bags now raging in the California Legislature,” writes George Skelton.
More »August 23, 2014 – Breitbart.com –
State Bill (SB) 270, introduced by State Senator Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima) in January to ban disposable plastic check-out bags from grocery stores, may come to a vote by midnight Aug. 31, according to the Los Angeles Times. Padilla, who is also the Democratic Party’s nominee for Secretary of State, had said that the millions of bags used every year “cost state and local governments at least $25 million,” amended his original version to curry favor with the grocery industry.
More »August 23, 2014 – California Political Review –
“The plastic bag ban… is about making government richer at our expense. It is about grocery stores getting higher profits—and the price of food goes up to pay for this phony ban.”
More »August 13, 2014 – FlashReport –
With only three weeks left in the 2014 legislative session and hundreds of bills yet to review, we can’t expect state legislators and staff fully vet, evaluate, and get a clear understanding of every bill that comes up for a vote. This is the time of the year, when deceptive and special interest language gets inserted into bills that inevitably come to bite the consumer for years to come.
More »August 12, 2014 – FlashReport –
Saddling consumers into paying extra for plastic bags at the grocery store is becoming an wildly unpopular idea. Facing formidable opposition because of the thousands of jobs which will be lost, Senate Bill 270 by Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Pacioma, is not just about the extra cost to shoppers anymore.
More »August 12, 2014 – Victoria Taft –
KPAM-AM radio host Victoria Taft says Senator Alex Padilla’s alterations to SB 270 are getting more and more absurd.
More »August 11, 2014 – Fox & Hounds Daily –
While SB 270 (Padilla) supporters continue to champion this terrible bill, the fact of the matter is that it is nothing more than a billion dollar handout to the California Grocers Association (CGA) and its members. If implemented, SB 270, which proposes to ban California-made plastic retail bags and hit consumers with big fees on other bags, would hurt the environment, kill California manufacturing jobs and cost consumers hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
More »August 10, 2014 – National Center for Policy Analysis –
Julian Morris of the Reason Foundation debunks some of the myths surrounding the plastic bag. While advocates of plastic bag bans would have you believe that the bags harm the environment and contribute to litter, the facts paint a very different picture.
More »August 10, 2014 – PlasticsToday –
We in the plastics industry see way too many headlines about plastic bag bans throughout the United States. So imagine how surprised I was when I read this article in Time magazine’s Aug. 5 edition online: “Your Whole Foods Tote Could be More Harmful Than a Plastic Bag.”
More »August 5, 2014 – FlashReport –
The California Legislature’s latest attempt to saddle consumers into paying extra for plastic bags at the grocery store is facing formidable opposition. The American Progressive Bag Alliance just announced it is launching two new television ads opposing Senate Bill 270, by Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Pacoima.
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