New year, new laws — Montgomery County’s plastic bag ban is now in effect. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports. It's out with the ...

The law closes a loophole in the state’s 2014 plastic bag law by prohibiting all plastic checkout bags, including thicker ...

Four years after Germany phased out light plastic bags, how has the EU addressed plastic waste — and why do single-use items ...

California has entered a new phase of waste reduction as a statewide ban on all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores and ...

New Year’s Day — Thursday, Jan. 1 — marks the start of a new year and a new set of California laws. A wave of new California ...

New state laws taking effect in 2026 covers everything from wages and workplace protections to data privacy and firing squads.

Microplastics are tiny plastic particles smaller than 5 mm that are now found in many foods that we consider healthy.

Hundreds of bills signed into law by Gov. Newsom are set to take effect in California in 2026, with most of them beginning on ...

The backstory: The law began as Senate Bill 53, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, to ...

Need a New Year's Resolution? Adopt one or all 10 of KLB’s solutions to help clean up our Sportsman’s Paradise.

A shopper called attention to the unnecessary plastic waste in a bag of avocados and sparked a heated debate in ...

Further into Lewisham town centre is evidence of a house move with bedposts, metal poles and other domestic waste piled up ...