AND AN INTERESTING SIDE NOTE TO THIS STORY INVOLVING GOVERNOR NEWSOM SIGNING THIS LATEST PLASTIC BAG BAN AS MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO BACK IN 2007. HE WAS ACTUALLY THE FIRST TO SIGN A PLASTIC BAG BAN ...

The legislation comes 10 years after the state banned plastic grocery bags and required stores to distribute reusable or recyclable plastic bags. State Sen. Catherine Blakespear (D) described the ...

Plastic bags will no longer be available for purchase at grocery stores for 15 cents, instead, sellers can only offer paper bags. California already has a ban on non-reusable plastic bags ...

SACRAMENTO — “Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) signed a law banning plastic bags from being sold at grocery stores, building on the state's prior regulations of plastic bags. Newsom signed a bill Sunday, alongside a ...

State Sen. Catherine Blakespear, one of the bill’s supporters, said people were not reusing or recycling any plastic bags. She pointed to a state study that found that the amount of plastic ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — “Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — “Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic ...

FILE - A plastic bag sits along a roadside in Sacramento, Calif., Oct. 25, 2013. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — “Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in ...