The New Yorker - The Bag Bill Taking action on a ubiquitous ecological blight.

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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/02/saving-america-from-plastic-bags?mbid=gnep&intcid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true

Jennie Romer moved from California to New York about four years ago to save the city from plastic bags. A practicing attorney, she is the country’s leading expert in plastic-bag law. Romer is thirty-eight years old, stands six feet tall, wears dark skirts with dark tights, and has copper-red hair, a pale complexion, and light-blue eyes. The bangs across her forehead sit as straight and level as the scales of blindfolded Justice. She served her apprenticeship in San Francisco, which in 2007 became the first city in America to place a ban on plastic grocery and retail-store bags. San Jose, where a similar law led to an eighty-nine-per-cent reduction of plastic-bag litter in the city’s storm drains, relied on her counsel. When Oakland moved to pass an anti-bag ordinance, it was defeated by the legal action of the plastics industry; from that setback, she learned how better to advise Los Angeles, which passed its own anti-bag ordinance, in 2012.

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