Plastic bag bans are total catnip for libertarians, particularly that large subset funded by fossil fuels. There is nothing they hate more than widely popular

Plastic bag bans are total catnip for libertarians, particularly that large subset funded by fossil fuels. There is nothing they hate more than widely popular and successful regulations to reduce fossil fuel use. So repeated attempts to discredit them are made. https://reason.com/tag/plastic-bags/ https://reason.com/tag/plastic-bags/ They don't really stand up to scrutiny though: https://www.nrdc.org/stories/do-plastic-bag-bans-work https://www.nrdc.org/stories/do-plastic-bag-bans-work