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NYC's Oct. 19 plastic-bag ban still on, judge says
New Y♛ork will be permitted to step up enforcement of its long delayed plastic bag ban starting on Monday despite a last-minute lawsuit aimed at pausing the effort yet again,...
New York's Oct. 19 plastic bag ban meets new challenges
The Empire State’s plastic bag ban — set to take effect on Oct. 19 — faces a fresh torrent of complaints, including a new lawsuit that threatens to push back... ෴
New York's plastic bag ban is back on — here's when it starts
ALBANY -- New York state will start enforcing its long-stalled ban ꦫon single-use plastic bags in grocery stores and supe💫rmarkets starting Oct. 19, according to a letter filed in court...
New York delays enf꧋orcement of plꦬastic bag ban until June 15
New York State has delayed the enforcement of its controversial plastic bag ban for the third time🌄.
Beware bug-breeding reusable🌄 grocery bags
City Councilman Mark Gjonaj is rightly pushing to set aside the city’s new 5-cent fee on paper bags at grocery stores a🍌nd the like in the face of the coronavirus...
Cuomo claims NYC hospitals have enough protective gear — nurses say he's lying
Gov. Cuomo said on Thursday th🤡at New York’s h🔯ospitals have “enough” protective gear for the moment — and he was immediately branded a liar by frontline nurses in New York...
ܫ In the midst of coronavirus c♊risis, Pelosi goes for woke: Devine
The proof that identity politics is a national-security issue finally stared us in the face during thi⭕s pandemic. First, we had Joe Biden and friends slamming President Trump as “xenophobic”... 🥂
Worker at hospital where nu🎐rses wear trash bags dies of coronavirus
The shortage of safety gear at one Manhattan hospi꧋tal is so dire that desperate nurses have resorted to wearing trash bags — and some blame the situation🌱 for the coronavirus...
🌟 Enforcement of New York’s plastic bag ban postponed due to coronavirus
New Yorkers can𒉰 still get groceries and supplies in plastic bags during the coronavirus pandemic. State officials have announced they now won’t enforce New York's controversial plastic bag ban until...
🌠Using tote bags instead of plastic could ꦫhelp spread the coronavirus
The COVID-19 outbreak is giving new meaning to those “su🔯stainable” shopping bags that politicians and environmentalists have been so eager to impose on the public. These reusable tote bags can.🍸..
John Catsimatidis wants to build paper bag fac🥀tory in upstate N🌸ew York
The Cats is in꧂ the bag. John Catsimatidis has settled on his next business vent🥃ure — paper bags. The Gristedes billionaire is looking to build a factory in upstate New...
🥃 To fight coronavirus, Gov. C𒁃uomo should suspend NY’s new plastic-bag ban
Since the Legi൩slature handed Gov. Andrew Cuomo vast powers to fight the coronavirus, he might as well use them wisely — ꦕfor starters, by suspending New York’s new statewide ban...
Criticisms of Trump's coronavirus response are sickening
Whom better to have as president during the coronavirus epidemic but a renowned germaphobe, the “build-the-wall” guy who refuse𝐆s to kowtow t🥃o China? It’s a unique set of characteristics showing...
'This is nonsense': New Yorkers hate the new ban on plastic bags
"I understand abo𓄧ut 'conserve, take care of the environment,' but c'mon!" moaned one Queens resident.
R🙈eusabl🦩e bags to buy before the NYC plastic bag ban
That plastic bag is so passé. Back in March, New York became the third state to ban the distri♏bution of single🦩-use plastic shopping bags to consumers in order to reduce...
𒉰 New Yorkers want to bag the new plastic baไn
The state's crackdown on plastic bags kicks off Sunday😼, but some Big Apple shoppers still had plenty of sour grapes about the new law the day before, ripping it as...
State officials say fines under New York's bag ban won't start for another month
New York statewide plastic bag ban begins this Sunday — but actual enforcement won’t start for a month, officials said Friday. State authorities agreed Thursday to delay penalizing stores violating... ❀
Bodega owners to fight imminent state plastic banཧ
A small army of New York City bodega and deli owners are gearing up to chall꧃enge the state’s plastic bag💎 ban on the eve of its March 1 implementation, The...
New York’s plastic bag ban starts this week — here's what you need to know
Here’s why it’s happ♎ening — and what shoppers should expect.
Democrats need Bloombe✃rg & his billions and other co🃏mmentary
From the left: Dems Need Bloomy & His Billions Yes, Mike Bloomberg has “a lot of baggage” — but, argues Vox’s Emily Stewart, “the billionaire businessman” ♛is the only Democr❀at...