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Los Angeles Proposes Plastic Grocery Bag Ban

Associations Now

The City Council must vote on the proposed ordinance again next week for it to be officially adopted. The California Grocers Association, a nonprofit representing approximately 500 retail members in California and Nevada, supports the measure and doesn’t think it will imposes a financial burden on retailers.

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Trade Group: Driverless Trucks Could Solve Oil-Shipping Crisis

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“One of the challenges we have here in North Dakota is that we have a lot of energy production going on right now, but not enough pipelines to carry the oil from North Dakota to its destination point,” CNATCA member Marlo Anderson told the Canadian Press news agency. . When could it happen?