Posted on 07/14/2011 12:43:48 PM PDT by SmithL
Anti-plastic-bag forces got a boost today when the California Supreme Court ruled that an environmental impact report is not necessary before a city or county bans the use of plastic shopping bags.
The decision strikes down rulings by trial and appellate courts in Los Angeles in the legal fight over an ordinance enacted in 2008 by the south coastal city of Manhattan Beach banning "point-of-sale plastic carry-out bags."
Both courts said the city had to prepare an EIR before implementing its ban.
"We disagree," a unanimous Supreme Court stated.
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first they banned paper in favor of plastic.
now they ban plastic in favor of paper.
orwell is laughing.
I have reusable bags and I hate them. I would much rather have paper,..and not the half size and thin ones now in use..between those and the thin good for nothing plastic ones.....I think it is time to have groceries delivered..IN box!
We use plastic grocery bags for kitchen trash. I got one of those trash cans where the handles of the bags hook over to keep it in place. It’s just large enough to hold one day’s worth of trash, and it’s someone’s chore to take it out every day (we all take turns).
If we didn’t use these thin plastic bags, we’d have to buy garbage bags from the store, and those bags pride themselves on being thick, strong and Hefty (i.e. 1000 times less biodegradable than plastic grocery bags). Liberal ideas always seem to make things worse.
ditto
Yes, and they are also the same jerks that want “green energy,” but when faced with implementation, they always find an excuse ( or a frog or an owl) as a reason why this or that particular project isn’t any good. “Let’s put in windmills, but windmills kill birds, so they are out.” “Let’s put in a solar energy plant in the California desert. no, not good, there’s some rodent habitat that will be impaired.” The truth if the matter is that the so-called environmentalists don’t want any solutions, they just want to try and control us back to the days when horse manure was a major problem. Go figure!
Perhaps the truth is that the plastic bag makers are spearheading this law. I think that most of the time, if you are able to drill down, someone is making $$$ at the bottom of these laws. There is usually corruption behind it.
plenty of trees here in the great northwet, and lots
of loggers who would appreciate the work.
packwood, wa had two mills, shut down in the 90’s and derelict due to Clinton era moonbattery about roads into the national forests and the supposedly threatened owl.
While I agree with all of the above sentiments about the nutcases in California and I do not support this law, I do though agree with Court on this decision as to what I know of this case.
Representatives of the people do not need the support of scientists or any other specialists in order to make law. The Court did the right thing in this case by striking down a ruling that seemed to claim that the only way such a law could be made is if a scientific study was first done that agreed with their position.
It reminds me of the other Supreme Court case whereas Scalia decided that there was not enough evidence of violence in video games being harmful to children. What right does Scalia have to cast any opinion on the scientific merits of the law?? Is Scalia a scientist?
It is not up to judges to decide whether a law is a good law or a bad law but just to rule on the legality within the Constitution framework involved (State and Federal). It is up to the people to decide whether or not the laws made by our representatives are either good laws or bad laws and then either re-elect or vote them out and demand the law changed.
Just one more Burma Shave sign on the highway to a Green, Marxist Utopia.
Next step will be banning grocery store parking lots as a sop to Marxist owned Wheelbarrow selling, urban/rooftop/macro-idiot, gardner supply shops.
And go buy bags to pick up doggy poop.
Although I resent the state telling us how we can bag our groceries, I do hate those little plastic grocery bags. They break, they leak, they contain almost nothing. The apples and canned goods escape in the trunk and roll all over the place. You can't carry more than a few pounds per hand without killing your fingers. Good riddance to them.
Amen.
LLS
Indeed it is. California's forests are overstocked and badly in need of economic justifications for thinning.
***No plastic bags? Then chop down some trees to make paper bags! Everyone knows that chopping down trees has no effect on the environment.***
But the reason everyone went to plastic bags is because the enviros were having fits over trees being cut down to make grocery bags!
Now the enviros are having fits over plastic bags!
We should all marvel at this moment. The state found an instance where an EIR is NOT required? Behold for its like shall not be seen again!
Actually they want you to buy reusable burlap totes that have been found to be breeding grounds for all manner of bacteria.
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