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A Sacramento City Council subcommittee moved forward Tuesday with drafting an ordinance to ban single-use plastic shopping bags at large grocery stores in the city.
The council's Law and Legislation Committee directed city staff to begin working on the ordinance, which will eventually return to the committee before being voted on by the City Council.
A Sacramento City Council subcommittee will take its first look today at a possible ban on plastic shopping bags at large grocery stores in the city.
The city's Law and Legislation Committee is expected to ask city staff to begin drafting an ordinance that would ban the bags and place a 5 cent or 10 cent charge on paper shopping bags. The process of approving an ordinance by the City Council would likely take at least two months.
A Sacramento City Council subcommittee will take its first look today at a possible ban on plastic shopping bags at large grocery stores in the city.
The city's Law and Legislation Committee is expected to ask city staff to begin drafting an ordinance that would ban the bags and place a 5 cent or 10 cent charge on paper shopping bags. The process of approving an ordinance by the City Council would likely take at least two months.
Assembly Bill 288 Seeks to "Trust but Verify" that Fracking is Safe
Assemblymember Marc Levine (D-San Rafael) introduced AB 288 today to provide that hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" will be approved in California only if the oil industry can prove that it poses no threat to public health and safety.
"Oil industry executives are publicly drinking what they claim to be fracking fluids to show it is safe. Yet, they still refuse to provide regulators with any information that proves that fracking presents no threat to public health and safety," said Levine.
San Francisco passed America's "first-in-the-nation" ban on plastic bags in chain grocery stores and drugstores in 2007. In a research paper for the Wharton School Institute for Law and Economics, law professors Jonathan Klick and Joshua Wright crunched state and federal data on emergency room admissions and food-borne-illness deaths and figured that the San Francisco ban "led to an increase in infections immediately upon implementation."
Assembly Bill 253 Allows Owners of Floating Homes to Purchase Marina
Assemblymember Marc Levine (D-San Rafael) announced today he has introduced legislation which would allow the residents of a floating home marina to create a condominium association for the purpose of purchasing their marina.
"When a floating home marina is up for sale, those with the most at stake are those who call the marina home," said Levine. "AB 253 is straightforward legislation that simply allows owners of floating homes to come together to protect their residences."
A once-failed effort to eliminate single-use plastic bags across California has been recycled by San Rafael state Assemblyman Marc Levine, again making Marin County the focus of the battle of the bag ban in the state.
MARC LEVINE didn't mess around with the first piece of legislation he has co-authored in the Assembly.
Assembly Bill 158 would ban plastic bags in California by 2015. The San Rafael Democrat is one of several co-authors.
In a statement issued after Brown's speech, Marin Assemblyman Marc Levine did not mention the environmental act. He praised the speech as a whole, which had upbeat tone and touched in issues including education, climate change, jobs, the proposed San Joaquin Delta tunnels, high-speed rail and implementation of President Barack Obama's health care law.