Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earlier this year, CALPIRG released a report showing that the volume of plastic bag waste in California had actually increased ...

California has a plastic bag problem — but not for long. California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a law fully banning plastic shopping bags in grocery stores, updating a decade-old ban that ...

“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had ...

(KTLA) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 1053 into law on Sunday, which bans plastic bags from being provided at grocery store checkouts. The Golden State was the first in the country to enact ...

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Stores in the state will only be allowed to provide paper bags starting in 2026. SACRAMENTO, California — Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Sunday to ban plastic bags at most California ...

On Sunday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that will close a legal loophole that has allowed for an increase in California's plastic bag waste, despite a 2014 law that was designed to ban the ...

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SACRAMENTO — “Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags.