Dispatches from battles of the bag (updated)
I’ve been meaning for some time now to do an update on the ongoing fight over plastic bags. It is, forgive the pun, a mixed bag. On the plus side: the suburban D.C. area of Montgomery County,...
View ArticleA New Bag Battle
In the old days — say, four years ago — bag battles were centered on the plastic or paper question. Which was always something of a red herring since the issue at stake is really our dependence on...
View ArticleWill Bag Bans Take Off in California?
If I were a betting person, I’d wager we’ll see a wave of plastic bag prohibitions coming out of California communities over the next year. And I’m guessing that unlike the first round of bag measures...
View ArticleHow to keep up with bag laws
When I was working on my book, trying to track the political debate over plastic bags was a major pain. Every time I saw a news story about some town considering a ban, I would log it into a chart I...
View ArticleWhose Wish List Counts?
One of the chief defenders of the plastics/chemicals industry is the Washington DC law firm of Keller and Heckman. Founding partner Jerome Heckman has represented plastics for decades going back to...
View ArticlePlastics at the Rio Earth Summit
Daniella Russo, a co-founders of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, was in Rio de Janeiro last week for the Rio+20 2012 Earth Summit. I asked her about what did –and didn’t — happen at the...
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