July 9, 2014 – CaliforniaCityNews.com –
If the environmental goal is to ban the use of plastic bags, why are so many environmental groups supporting a piece of legislation in California that would replace current plastic bags with a much larger, thicker plastic bags?
More »July 7, 2014 – Americans for Tax Reform –
Good intentions on the part of government officials often fail to beget good policy. Plastic Bag bans and taxes are no exception. While no statewide bag ban or tax has been imposed in the U.S., over 190 local bag taxes or outright prohibitions have, with Los Angeles being one of the most recent cities to go after plastic bags (never mind the City of Angels’ $7.7 billion unfunded liability).
More »July 4, 2014 – Reason –
On Tuesday, the second wave of Los Angeles’ plastic bag ban went in to effect as small grocers are no longer allowed to offer customers plastic as an option to carry their goods.
More »July 3, 2014 – SF Gate –
Scientists used to say that there were a million tons of plastic debris in the ocean, but after testing samples, they now believe the number is much lower — 7,000 tons to 35,000 tons. Kudos to Andres Cozar and company for wanting to know more and producing this paper.
More »July 3, 2014 – PJ Media –
The scientist whose findings environmentalists used to shame us into bringing our own reusable bags to the grocery store now says that his estimate of one million tons of plastic floating in the ocean may have been off by a factor of perhaps 143. His latest estimate ranges from 7,000 to 35,000 tons, and even most of that has biodegraded into granules.
More »July 2, 2014 – Townhall –
A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could mean bad news for environmental doomsayers. Forget all those warnings about the million tons of plastic debris floating in the ocean. Ignore the photos that you think show the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Andres Cozar of the University of Cadiz in Spain is the man who once extrapolated the 1 million-ton estimate. Since then, however, he has led research that collected samples at 141 ocean sites. Cozar’s new estimate: Between 7,000 and 35,000 tons of plastic are floating in the ocean.
More »June 29, 2014 – Uncover California –
The retail and grocery lobbies of California want lawmakers to put a ban on use of plastic shopping bags even as plastic-bag manufacturers are severely opposing any such restriction.
More »June 26, 2014 – Reason –
When municipal officials started to impose bans on lightweight plastic shopping bags, it seemed like the latest attempt to inflict a little pain on consumers — a mostly symbolic effort to make us feel like we were “doing something” to save the planet.
More »June 26, 2014 – Breitbart.com –
Almost nothing in California surprises Assemblyman Tim Donnelly anymore. When State Senator Alex Padilla presented a bill to ban “single-use” plastic bags at an Assembly hearing this week, he couldn’t believe that Padilla could do it with a straight face.
More »June 26, 2014 – United Liberty –
Plastic bag bans have spread to more than 130 cities and counties across the U.S. In some jurisdictions (like Washington, D.C.) governments have instituted taxes on the use of plastic bags, rather than outright bans to generate revenue for “environmental efforts” to curb pollution or encourage recycling.
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