March 8, 2017
KARE News John Croman March 7, 2017- ST. PAUL — The plastic bag debate has moved to the State Capitol, as Republican lawmakers move to stop the City of Minneapolis from banning plastic bags in retail stores. Than ban goes into effect June 1, and also features a 5-cent per …
March 8, 2017
Sandusky Register Tom Jackson March 7, 2017- PORT CLINTON — Lawyers for the Ottawa County prosecutor and for a quarry in Benton Township clashed Tuesday over whether a judge should shut down operations at the Rocky Ridge Quarry in Benton Township. Common Pleas Judge Bruce Winters told lawyers at the …
February 22, 2017
NRDC Eric A. Goldstein February 17, 2017 New York City’s 2016 break-through law that established a five cent fee on single use plastic (and paper) grocery bags so as to encourage shoppers to switch to reusables has been toppled in Albany. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed an ill-advised …
February 16, 2017
Courier-Journal James Bruggers February 15, 2017 If you are Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer or an environmental advocate you might be looking at the latest legislative effort to meddle in public policy in Kentucky’s largest city as if it were a monster that just doesn’t seem to die. Dracula? Chucky? Michael …
February 14, 2017
Courthouse News Jamie Henneman February 13, 2017 SPOKANE, Wash. (CN) — Residents of Spokane have sued the federal government for the right to ban railroads from carrying fossil fuels through the city, an initiative the city placed on the ballot last year, then removed as legally indefensible because of federal pre-emption. …