Save The Plastic Bag Coalition

Last week, California Superior Court Judge Teri Jackson upheld the ordinance San Francisco recently passed which banned most retail locations in the city from distributing plastic bags. The ruling was the final outcome of a lawsuit filed by the Save the Plastic Bag Coalition, which insisted that the environmental impact of the bag ban was not properly assessed before the ordinance was passed. Writes Aaron Sankin of the Huffington Post,

Plastic bag makers are fighting back against a recently passed ordinance banning plastic bags by suing the city of Santa Cruz, according to an article posted on the Sacremento Bee. According to the Associated Press, the lawsuit was filed by the "Save the Plastic Bag Coalition," an organization whose name seems to liken plastic bags to endangered animals. The Associated Press reports: