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03.06.2020 Environment

Enforcement of statewide plastic bag ban delayed one more month

Enforcement of New York’s plastic bag ban, which took effect Sunday, has been pushed off one month after an eleventh-hour lawsuit was filed challenging the legislation. The lawsuit, filed...

12.20.2017 Business

Get your nickels ready: Suffolk County bag law takes effect Jan. 1

It’s not the outright ban on plastic bags that some officials had sought in the past, but come Jan. 1, a bill that Suffolk County passed in 2016 will...

05.20.2016 Editorials

Editorial: It’s time for a ban on plastic bags in Suffolk

Suffolk County legislators were considering pulling the trigger on a single-use plastic bag ban. But then, at a May 5 meeting in Riverhead, they stepped back to reload.

05.05.2016 Government

Suffolk lawmakers delay taking action on plastic bag ban — again

Suffolk County residents hopeful for a decision regarding a proposed ban on single-use plastic bags at retail stores across the county will have to keep waiting.

04.12.2016 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: Legislature moves to ban the bag

There could soon be a vote by the Suffolk County Legislature on a bill to ban the distribution of single-use plastic bags county-wide.

03.27.2016 Government

Town Board members say they’d back county-wide bag ban

With Suffolk County now discussing a ban on single-use plastic bags, Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell and other board members who had declined to take up the issue at...

10.15.2015 Editorials

Editorial: Suffolk County needs to discuss plastic bag ban

In the years since the Suffolk County Legislature last discussed, then dropped, the idea of banning single-use plastic bags, here are some things legislators have chosen to take action...

10.15.2015 Health & Environment

As towns defer to county, a plastic bag ban seems unlikely

Will recent bans on single-use plastic bag in Southampton and East Hampton towns inspire more local municipalities — including those on the North Fork — to follow suit? Probably...

09.24.2015 Letters

Featured Letter: Let the county ban plastic bags

I can certainly appreciate your editorial advocating for the banning of single-use plastic bags.

09.19.2015 Editorials

Editorial: A plastic bag ban in Southold is overdue

It’s been 14 months since Southold Town hosted a public forum to debate banning plastic bags across the East End. At the time, the crowd overwhelmingly supported an edict...

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