"Paper or plastic" will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 1053 into law on Sunday, which bans plastic bags from being provided at grocery store checkouts. The Golden State was the first in the country to enact a law banning plastic grocery bags with the passing of SB 270 in ...

Newsom has faced lobbying from both sides. Yeni Linares, an undocumented immigrant who has cleaned houses in Southern California for nearly two decades, said she lost her car and apartment during the pandemic when she couldn’t work due to lockdown measures. She reminded Newsom that rejecting the proposal could also cost him politically.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who signed one of the first municipal bag bans in the U.S. as mayor of San Francisco in 2007, signed a new statewide plastic bag ban Sept. 22.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom Sunday signed a bill banning plastic bags from being provided at grocery stores, in a move supporters say will help reduce a major source of waste.

Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores,

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a plastic bag bill that will ban stores from offering heavyweight 'reusable' plastic bags at the checkout line.