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Chicago's New Bag Tax Will Generate $13 Million, Won't Save Environment

So, it's working as planned.

Eric Boehm | 12.2.2016 9:50 AM

Brickbats

Brickbat: Red Solo Cup

Charles Oliver | 10.2.2016 4:00 AM

Ballot Initiatives

California Senate Choices Got You Down? Check Out These Ballot Initiatives Instead.

Voters will have 16 other issues to consider Election Day.

Scott Shackford | 7.6.2016 12:50 PM

Politics

Plastic Bags Are Good for You

What prohibitionists get wrong about one of modernity's greatest inventions

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.1.2015 3:00 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: DON'T PANIC, S.S. Follies, Libertarian Spoilers, Peter Suderman on Obamacare, Why Are We Still in Afghanistan, Intel vs. Obama, Plastic Bans, Are Hot Dogs Sandwiches, and Aftershow!

Matt Welch | 9.30.2014 8:08 PM

California

Calif. Plastic Bag Ban Survives After All (As Do Other Bad Bills)

Scott Shackford | 8.29.2014 10:15 AM

Plastic Bags

California Statewide Ban on Plastic Bags May Get Binned

Scott Shackford | 8.26.2014 10:20 AM

Plastic Bags

Soon we will all be mandated to haul our groceries, booze, and hamburgers around in organic-certified, fair-trade, shade-grown burlap sacks.

Ronald Bailey | 8.20.2014 2:41 PM

Politics

Millennials Don't Like to be Nannied, Want to Lower the Legal Drinking Age

Emily Ekins | 7.10.2014 12:00 PM

Plastic Bags

No More Plastic Bags at Los Angeles Corner Stores, Bodegas

Scott Shackford | 7.1.2014 10:45 AM

Politics

Plastic Bag Bans Will Cost You

Forcing consumers to shift their behavior isn't cheap.

Steven Greenhut | 6.27.2014 12:00 PM

Policy

Plastic Bag Bans Are Expensive, Ineffective, and Kinda Gross

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.19.2014 11:43 AM

Politics

Video: California Law Forces Chefs and Bartenders to Wear Gloves

Alexis Garcia | 2.17.2014 9:15 PM

Policy

Hey, California! Want to Conserve Water? Then Don't Ban Plastic Bags.

What happens when green populism meets environmental necessity

Scott Shackford | 1.31.2014 4:46 PM

Policy

Court Upholds San Francisco Plastic Bag Ban

Judge accepts that ban can only help environment

Reason Staff | 1.6.2014 2:50 PM

Politics

4 New Year's Bans: Plastic Bags, Light Bulbs, and More!

Zenon Evans | 12.30.2013 3:38 PM

Policy

Los Angeles Plastic Bag Ban Set to Start

Goes into effect Jan. 1

Reason Staff | 12.23.2013 5:10 PM

Policy

As Plastic Bag Ban Approaches, LA Starts Handing Out Free Totes

Do they come with antibiotics?

Reason Staff | 11.19.2013 6:30 PM

Policy

NYC Proposes Plastic Bag Tax

10 cents for each bag to encourage reusables

Reason Staff | 8.20.2013 5:10 PM

Politics

60 Percent of Americans Oppose Plastic Bag Ban

Emily Ekins | 8.19.2013 3:50 PM

Politics

60 Percent of Americans Oppose Plastic Bag Ban

Emily Ekins | 8.19.2013 2:55 PM