On Oct. 17, California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a press release announcing the conclusion of a statewide ...

Ten years after California approved a plastic bag ban that’s been blamed for making its plastic bag problem worse, the state is banning single-use plastic grocery bags entirely. In 2014, California ...

The Golden State's chief legal officer announced a settlement with four producers of plastic bags for misleading the public in falsely claiming that the bags are recyclable.

A Melville plastic bag maker plans to lay off 146 of its manufacturing workers on May 1, according to state filings. Poly-Pak Industries Inc., which has manufactured plastic bags at the company’s ...

After more than a decade of negotiations and failed efforts to reduce the use of plastics, Illinois lawmakers are considering legislation that would prohibit large retailers from offering single-use ...