Sentences with phrase «city bag fee»

The Assembly and Senate this week overwhelmingly passed legislation that would impose a one - year moratorium on the city bag fee law that is due to go into effect Feb. 15.

A state or city bag fee was most likely never possible last year, whatever Gov. Andrew Cuomo's task force concluded.

Not exact matches

Just as Torontonians were getting used to shelling out 5 cents for plastic bags, Mayor Rob Ford — possibly angered by having to carry so many nickels and unwilling to suffer the indignity of paying for a reusable shopping bag — put forth a motion to do away with the city's plastic - bag fee as of July 1.

Supporters of the plastic bag fee say it's designed to cut down on environmentally harmful waste and surcharges in other cities have worked better than outright bans.

The New York City Council voted 28 - 20 to require certain retailers to collect a fee on each carryout bag, paper or plastic, with some exceptions, with Mayor Bill de Blasio expressing support for the measure.

NYC First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris said the administration would support a ban or fee on plastic shopping bags, which the City Council has been eying to pass.

The bill to be taken up later today in the Senate would block any fees or taxes on carry - out merchandise shopping bags in New York City.

That bill has now landed on Cuomo's desk, and the clock is ticking since the City's bag fee is set to come on line February 15.

The DN praises Cuomo for «finally deciding» to do something about plastic bags, but adds: «the statewide ban he now proposes, more than a year after letting the state Legislature trash the City Council's better idea to impose a 5 - cent per - bag fee, is the wrong answer to a real scourge.»

Say what you will about the bag fee legislation approved by the City Council last month, It's probably fair to say no one expected the Democrat dominated New York State Assembly to even consider overturning the will of the also overwhelming Democratic New York City Council.

State Sen. Simcha Felder (D - Brooklyn), who led the charge against the city's bag fee, declined to comment Monday.

As the Republican - controlled Senate Tuesday prepares to vote on legislation that would block New York City from enacting a five - cent fee on plastic bags, an environmental group is urging the Legislature to let the surcharge take effect.

After state lawmakers stepped in last week to vote on legislation that would delay the implementation of a plastic and paper bag fee in New York City, a Brooklyn assemblyman, Felix Ortiz, is looking to discourage use of disposable bags statewide.

On Monday, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie acknowledged there are concerns among some of the New York City lawmakers in his conference over the bag fee.

City Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia faced a barrage of criticism from the panel, including State Assemblyman Dov Hikind of Brooklyn, who said the 5 - cent bag fee amounts to taxation without representation.

It is unclear whether Cuomo's proposal would fly in the Republican - led State Senate, which also opposed the city's 5 - cent bag fee.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill on Tuesday that blocked implementation of a 5 - cent fee on plastic shopping bags that was to go into effect the following day in New York City.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- State lawmakers held a hearing Friday to examine whether New York City's plan to impose a fee on plastic bags will be a burden on consumers.

The bill instating such fees, which exempts food stamp recipients and transparent produce bags, cleared the City Council last week over bitter opposition.

Backers of the fee note that New Yorkers consume 9 billion disposable bags a year, which clutter parks, cling to trees, accrue into islands in the world's oceans, strangle marine life and cost the city sanitation system an estimated $ 12.5 million annually to process.

Protesters gathered outside City Hall, where the City Council considered a fee on disposable bags.

«In city after city, around the country and around the world, people who were initially resistant to bag fees have very quickly adjusted and overwhelmingly started to bring reusable bags — precisely to avoid paying them.

Other council members pointed to studies showing plastic bag use is on the rise in cities that have instituted similar punitive fees, like San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

But as with so much else in the city, the last word on the subject lies with the State Capitol, where hostility to the bag bill has threatened to undo, or at least revise, the fee.

ALBANY — The yearslong debate over whether to impose a fee for plastic bags in New York appeared to come to a hard - fought end last month, when the City Council voted to charge 5 cents for most plastic and paper shopping bags.

State Senator Simcha Felder of Brooklyn, in Albany on Tuesday, is among the opponents of New York City's plastic bag fee.

But the State Legislature this week voted to block the city's duly enacted law, doing the bidding of the plastic - bag industry, and hiding behind the argument that the fee is a tax on the poor.

A New York City Housing Authority tenant leader tore into Manhattan Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal for leading chants claiming families can afford a proposed 10 - cent fee on plastic bags at a rally in favor of the measure earlier this week.

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Suffolk County and the City of Long Beach have enacted plastic bag fees.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — As the state legislature debated a bill to stop New York City from putting a 5 cent fee on plastic shopping bags, it wasn't just downstate interests that were watching closely.

The City Council passed the bag fee law last month, hoping it would reduce trash by encouraging shoppers to use reusable bags.

Rather than hit customers who use plastic and other disposable bags with the 5 - cent fee under the city law, a new bill would actually pay them to use reusable bags.

Gov. Cuomo Tuesday signed a bill to impose a moratorium blocking the city from imposing a controversial 5 - cent fee on plastic disposable bags.

A bill that prevents all cities and towns in the state from imposing bag fees passed the Republican - led Senate on Tuesday, with 36 in favor and 22 opposed.

After a vote by the legislature, Governor Andrew Cuomo now holds the fate of the city's grocery bag fee in his hands.

State lawmakers have voted to delay the implementation of a five - cent fee on plastic and paper grocery bags in New York City, which effectively kills the bill.

«The Governor even had the Chutzpah to suggest the City Council's vote for the BYOBag law was some sort of fluke and shouldn't count,» Kellner wrote, referencing a comment Cuomo made that the council vote on the bag fee bill was a close one while the legislation imposing the moratorium overwhelmingly passed the state Legislature.

Supporters of the fee have said 10 billion plastic bags are thrown out a year in New York — amounting to 1,700 tons a week, and only 5 % of plastic bags are currently recycled in the city.

The former state lawmaker plans to create a second committee — Nickel PAC — that he said will contribute directly to candidates who pledge to support a City Council speaker next year who vowed to bring the bag fee bill up for a new vote.

The push from the state echoes another battle: the legislature's move to suspend the city's fee on plastic and paper bags.

ALBANY — A former state assemblyman is creating a super PAC to push for the resurrection of a law imposing a 5 - cent fee on disposable bags in New York City.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito wants to sock New Yorkers with a five - cent fee on grocery bags to boost recycling and reduce waste.

The Citizens Budget Commission and many others have had enough: it's time for New York City to act on imposing a plastic bag fee.

He said the goal of the fee, which he made clear was initially a City Council idea, was to change people's behavior to get away from using plastic bags, which clog landfills.

Most recently, a New York City - backed move to charge a 5 - cent fee on plastic bags was delayed amid concerns from state lawmakers.

«Supporters of New York City's pending five - cent - per - carryout - bag fee pitch the levy as environmentally sound, saving the City from a perceived scourge of plastic shopping bags,» Potrikus wrote.

Nixon, who supports placing a fee on plastic bags in New York City, was asked about the bag ban issue during her first campaign trip to Buffalo last Wednesday.

The New York State Retail Council in a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week backed a delay of the 5 - cent fee on carry - out bags in New York City, but not because merchants will be able to pocket the surcharge.

Still, the council in the letter to Cuomo says the bag fee is more preferable than an outright ban on plastic bags in New York City.