California became the first state to pass a plastic bag ban in 2014, but it's been blamed for making the problem worse. The ...

California sued ExxonMobile on Sept. 23 for misleading the public through slick marketing campaigns about its plastic ...

A decade ago, California became the first U.S. state to ban single-use plastic bags, the flimsy sacks that regularly blew into waterways, littered streets and collected in landfills. The prohibition, ...

Residents will be able to recycle plastic bags at the kerbside in a county first for parts of Warwickshire. Empty and clean ...

Park Ridge leaders broached the idea of following suit with other area municipalities in perhaps establishing single-use ...

On Sept. 22, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that bans 'em. "California had already banned thin plastic shopping ...

In 2007, Mr. Newsom, as mayor of San Francisco, signed a law that made the city the first in the nation to ban plastic bags in grocery stores. Many other cities followed suit, including Los ...

California's ban on plastic grocery bags is set to expand, but shoppers still have over a year to wait until paper becomes the only game in town. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed a bill into law ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store checkouts, including the thicker, ...

ExxonMobil is the leading producer of synthetic polymers, which are essentially the building blocks of single-use plastic, ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store checkouts, including the thicker, "reusable" bags that stores switched to after an earlier ban. “We deserve a ...

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed a first-of-a-kind lawsuit against the oil giants, saying they've deceived the public ...