California plastic bag ban may be delayed or scrapped
Source: The Hill, Date: , 2014
Opponents of California’s ban on disposal plastic bags say they have
gathered enough signatures to force a statewide referendum on the policy. The
petition, which was dueMonday, could cause the state to delay the ban while voters
consider whether to overturn the nation’s first statewide plastic bag ban,
thanks to a signature drive organized by the plastics industry-backed American
Progressive Bag Alliance, the Sacramento Bee reported.The group said that in
the 90-day window it was allotted, it gathered 800,000 signatures, far more
than the 504,760 needed to get on the November 2016 ballot. Counties must now
sample some of the signatures to determine if they are valid.