I’ve never seen a ranking of states by their support for environmental causes, but I’m fairly sure that Pennsylvania would be near the bottom. One bright spot was that a number of Pennsylvania cities had banned the use of plastic bags.. These are the bags that end up in the ocean and in whales’ and sea turtles’ stomachs or hang from tree limbs and fences.
In 2019 the Republican-controlled legislature said that cities did not have that power. The bill had a sunset clause, and this year the legislators neglected to re-enact the pre-emption. Philadelphia and Pittsburg are already moving to ban the bags.
In the meantime, when you go into a store, take a cloth bag along with you.
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