SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KABC) -- It's been a decade since California lawmakers first took aim at plastic shopping bags, but that law's failure spurred a new law that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Sunday.

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Evanston is moving toward imposing a 10-cent tax on all shopping bags as part of its broader effort to increase sustainability after the Economic Development Committee approved a proposal in late May.

Ten years after California approved a plastic bag ban that’s been blamed for making its plastic bag problem worse, the state is banning single-use plastic grocery bags entirely. In 2014, California ...