Posts tagged Bag Fees
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Breakfast links: Transportation projects for the new year
VA’s Outer Beltway coming; What counties want; More info on Jack’s; Arlington peaking?; Year’s most annoying in development; Regulations make alley living pricey; DC faces higher fiscal cliff; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: On the Potomac
Potomac study a foregone conclusion?; Bag fee still working; Less green lines; More on Ride-On-riding 5th grader; Drive less; Less for transit, more on trains; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Votes and taxes
Online voter registration?; Commuter tax for DC gov workers?; Norton skeptical of autonomy referendum; Bag fee helps clean up Anacostia; Finish the trail; Corcoran interior a landmark?; DC’s offices the fullest in the nation; MARC World Series?; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: As we mature
Growing pains; Such great heights; Better buses; The city as solar heater; WMATA communimucates; A height limit broken; LA bans bags; Monkey business; And…. Keep reading…
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What killed the Prince George’s County bag bill?
On Saturday, the Environmental Matters committee of the Maryland House of Delegates voted down a measure that would have let Prince George’s County create a 5¢ bag fee, similar to those in Montgomery and DC. Just a couple of weeks ago, the bill narrowly passed a vote by the county delegation, and advocates thought they had cleared the biggest hurdle. Local bills with… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Legislative action
Not all love Gray’s budget; Evans introduces bill he didn’t understand; Confusion kills PG bag fee; Privatization reaches Maryland; Property tax to fund BRT?; Bethesda built for cars; WHO likes bikes and pedestrians; And…. Keep reading…
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Prince George’s bag fee wins key vote in Maryland House
This morning, delegates that represent Prince George’s County in the Maryland House of Delegates voted 12 to 9 in support of HB895, which would let let the county enact a 5¢ fee on disposable plastic and paper bags. This was the most significant hurdle, and the bill now has a very high chance of becoming law. The bill now moves to the Environmental Matters Committee of… Keep reading…
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It’s time for a statewide bag fee in Maryland
DC’s 5¢ bag fee is now 2 years old, and it has unquestionably achieved its goals. Shoppers have overwhelmingly switched to using reusable bags to carry their purchases, and fewer plastic bags are polluting the Anacostia River. But we all live downstream of somewhere, and bags and other trash continue to come in from Maryland and tarnish DC’s waters. Montgomery… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not yet in the bag
Baker boosting bag fee; College Park TOD gets friendlier; Obama’s Metro cut “ominous”; What’s not passing Congress; Office cafeterias decline; NYPD knows little, does less; NYPD knows about bike tickets; TOD Walmart lacks T or D; And…. Keep reading…
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Prince George’s bag fee not dead, but needs your help
On Wednesday, a preliminary vote on the Prince George’s County disposable bag fee failed to move the measure forward. The Washington Post’s article explained many of the dynamics, but the headline suggested the bill was dead. It’s not, but it needs residents’ help to pass. Unlike in Montgomery County, where a 5¢ fee began last month on plastic… Keep reading…