The state led the nation in 2014 by banning single-use plastic bags, but a loophole actually led to more plastic waste.

California and other states -- and some cities -- have learned a lesson: Bans on plastic bags don’t always go as planned. In ...

Most recently, meddling leftists have been hard at work banning shopping bags and making lightbulbs more expensive. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Golden State’s busybody in chief ...

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

Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by ...

California’s ban on all plastic bags used by grocery retailers has now become law. Senate Bill 1053 and Assembly Bill 2236, which called for the elimination of plastic bags, were signed into law ...

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 ...

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 ...