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The District may approve one of the nation’s highest taxes on sugary drinks

October 8, 2019

Tags: local control, Soda Taxes, Washington D.C.

Washington Post, Fenit Nirappil, October 7, 2019- A majority of the D.C. Council wants to impose one of the highest taxes on sugary drinks in the nation, driving up the cost of a soda in the capital city. A bill announced Monday would levy a 1.5 cent-per-ounce excise tax on …

Alaska city to vote on first state tax on soda, sweet drinks

October 1, 2019

Tags: Alaska, Preemption, soda tax, state preemption

Miami Herald, Associated Press, September 30, 2019- Residents of a northern Alaska community are set to vote on whether to impose the state’s first tax on most sodas and other sweetened drinks. Voters in Utqiagvik are scheduled to vote Tuesday on the proposed tax on drinks sold in the city, …

Consumption of Artificially Sweetened-Drinks Drops Following New Beverage Tax

August 21, 2019

Tags: local control, Pennsylvania, Soda Taxes

Express Keeper, Rushikesh Khetmalis, August 19, 2019- According to a team of researchers from Penn Medicine, the consumption rate of sugary drinks dropped by 38%, which is a decrease in purchase of one billion ounces of, that’s approximately 83 million cans of soda, in the Philadelphia area alone. Artificially sweetened, …

The sugary-drink tax is working in Seattle, but will it curb soda sales?

August 19, 2019

Tags: Healthy Kids, Soda Taxes, Washington

The Seattle Times, Jim Krieger, August 18, 2019- Seattle is well into its second year of the Sweetened Beverage Tax. Based on what we’ve learned so far, the tax is functioning as intended on its first goal: Growing programs that increase healthy food access and support for child health and …

Is Big Soda winning the soft drink wars?

August 13, 2019

Tags: local control, Preemption, soda tax, Statepreemption

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 …

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