August 13, 2019
Politico, Jeremy B. White, August 13, 2019- When the mayor of Philadelphia unveiled his battle plan against sugary sodas, it looked like he was riding a national wave. The year was 2016, and one city after another was trying to fight obesity by nudging their citizens away from cheap, high-calorie …
July 24, 2019
The Seattle Times, Danny Westneat, July 24, 2019- Something sure seems off with Seattle’s experiment with the soda tax. A telltale sign is that they’re in a “nasty spat” down at City Hall about all the extra money it’s spinning off. What the mayor and City Council suddenly are warring over …
July 23, 2019
Bay City News, Annie Steuart, July 22, 2019- Health advocacy groups have launched a statewide campaign focused on passing a soda tax by the end of the year. The coalition of groups formed in the wake of the failure of five bills seeking to curtail soda consumption to pass earlier …
July 19, 2019
Food Dive, Jessi Devenyns, July 19, 2019- A new coalition called Californians for Less Soda — which includes the American Heart Association, the California Medical Association and the California Dental Association — is bringing back the fight for a 2-cent-per-ounce statewide tax on sugary drinks, according to Politico. The coalition also …
July 18, 2019
Modern Farmer, Dan Nosowitz, July 18, 2019- Soda taxes—though they actually apply to other sugary drinks as well—have proven controversial, to say the least. There’s no national soda tax in the United States, but also nothing to stop individual localities from instituting their own. Some have been passed and then …