A coalition of 17 states and a trade association representing U.S. wholesalers and distributors have sued California to block the enforcement of a stringent recycling law that aims to reduce plastic packaging waste.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court, argues that California’s recently finalized regulations that will gradually require companies to scale back single-use plastics and ensure all packaging is recycling or compostable should be struck down. The plaintiffs called the regulations “onerous mandates” that will cause steep price increases in everyday necessities that will be passed on, at least in part, to consumers.
“Once again, California is trying to enact a policy that negatively impacts the rest of the country. If California goes unchecked, consumers will be forced to pay more for basic necessities,” Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers, who led the coalition, said in a news release.
The law, called the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, was enacted in 2022.
“Virtually every product packaged or shipped in plastic containers, as well as a significant number of other types of packaging materials that merely incorporate plastics, fall into the Act’s remarkable sweep,” the lawsuit said.
The National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, which represents companies that import and distribute goods in California, also joined the lawsuit.
In summary: Won’t somebody think of our profits!?
I hope this law remains. Anything that hurts big oil is a win for us.
California’s recently finalized regulations that will gradually require companies to scale back single-use plastics and ensure all packaging is recycling or compostable
Fucking GOOD. About time someone put an end to this bullshit.
This is Good California. California should keep being Good California, and not Operating-System-age-gating California.
“Once again, California is trying to enact a policy that negatively impacts the rest of the country. If California goes unchecked, consumers will be forced to pay more for basic necessities,” Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers, who led the coalition, said in a news release.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Basic necessities are already unaffordable, so what, they’re gonna get slightly more unaffordable? Oh no! Fuck all the way off with that bullshit justification, Nebraska.
They also don’t acknowledge the problem plastics present. It’s obvious plastic waste is a huge problem. They don’t lift a finger about that. But sure they’ll dump millions into PACs and other shitty special interest groups.
Fuck big oil, fuck Nebraska AG Mike Hilgers.
“Once again, California is trying to enact a policy that negatively impacts the rest of the country. If California goes unchecked, consumers will be forced to pay more for basic necessities,” Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers, who led the coalition, said in a news release.
Once again, we will drag you into the future because we’re the fourth largest economy in the world and laws that we pass force compliance in other states. You can thank us for regulating the market ahead of the rest of the country. And backwater red states can suffer the progress inflicted upon them while allowing Elon to poison their constituents with gas powered generators and disenfranchising voters.
You’re fucking welcome.
https://www.californiacarlaws.com/
Edit: Fuck the south
Seems like if California is as awful as conservatives claim, all these states wouldn’t need to do business with them. Are they so financially dependent on California that they can’t afford to boycott? Too bad, so sad.
The entire country is dependent on California
Imagine if they did their national divorce bullshit. California, New York, Washington. Some serious economies (Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Redmond (Microsoft) and Amazon. All our tax dollars subsidizing the funding of their welfare programs would be gone and they’d whither and get taken over by Mexico.
NYC, washington, oregon, all the blue states. CA also houses the Navy seal training center.
Took a 2h road trip to go whale watching and observed tons of Georgia, Texas, Ohio license plates at the hotel. Why they would drive across the country to hang out with us commie satanists is completely beyond me. I wanted to tell them to get tf out of my state.
noticed how they stopped attacking NYC because madmani was so likeable, even for trump.
“California is not entitled to pronounce nationwide policies,” Eric Hoplin, the trade association’s president and CEO, said in a statement.
Except, they aren’t “pronouncing nationwide policies”…this only applies to products sold in California. If these companies don’t like it, they don’t have to comply. It just means they’ll lose California as a customer.
“Nebraska in the lawsuit were 16 other states with Republican attorneys general: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.”
The usual turd in the punchbowl states. Not at all surprising. I hope they bankrupt themselves losing this in court.
Indiana’s attorney general is a long-time piece of shit! I’m saddened but not surprised that they’re apart of this.
Notice how the plaintiffs are all businesses and shadowy ‘trade groups’ and not tax paying citizens with an actual damage to claim?
I did.
California should counter-sue these 17 states and trade groups for wilfully damaging the environment of California.
Can I sue everyone who allows packaging that cannot be opened without slicing yourself or the contents wide open? That’s who needs to be sued.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a thinly veiled political attempt to distract the eyes wide shut people from Trump’s bad economic policies that are already inflating prices on everyday products by putting the blame on a very Democratic state.
I could be overthinking it, but at this point in “reality”, I would be more surprised if this was merely a coincidence in timing.
seems coordinated as hell, on such a trivial law. and California is useful soundbite to rail on for fox too.
silicon valley is here and their profits demand sweet data… so yeah uphill battle on that one. i hope we can get them to fuck off though.
Astro-turfing
This is what the entire country/world needs to be doing for the health of both people and the world. Alternative solutions to unchecked plastics are available. Companies need to adjust to a changing world.
Corporations raise prices whenever they want but threaten to raise prices unless they get their way.
lol fuck em.
Holy shit. How is “let us poison people and the planet” grounds for a lawsuit?!
