September 17, 2019
The Intelligencer, Charles Bolinger, September 16, 2019- As of last month, 300 municipalities across the nation have passed either a single-use bag fee, tax or ban, while state lawmakers have introduced at least 95 bills related to plastic bags so far this year. Bring Your Own Glen-Ed (BYOGE) wants to …
September 10, 2019
The Palm Beach Post, Frank Cerabino, September 9, 2019- If you think it’s high time that Florida gets serious about the environmental hazards posed by single-use plastic bags, straws and polystyrene containers, there’s good news and bad news in recent developments. Mostly bad news. It was nine years ago that the …
August 28, 2019
Plastics News, Steve Toloken, August 26, 2019- Large plastic packaging maker Berry Global Group Inc. is coming out against campaigns by its plastics industry peers for state laws that take away the power of local governments to ban or tax packaging. Passing those laws has been an important political priority …
August 26, 2019
Palm Beach Daily News, Editorial, August 25, 2019- A reluctant Town Council recently repealed its forward-thinking ban on plastic bags and polystyrene containers after learning an appellate court sided with the Legislature’s preemption against local bans of plastic bags and polystyrene containers. But the fight is not over, and it …
August 7, 2019
Next City, Zoe Sullivan, August 7, 2019- In late July, a Florida county circuit court struck down some of the penalties added in 2011 to Florida’s law banning local governments from regulating firearms. Those penalties included the ability to remove local elected officials from office, fining them up to $5,000 …