am progressive bag alliance

<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-made-illegal-2509110321.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-made-illegal-2509110321.html</a>...Unfortunately that legal battle would require likely copious amounts of money to fight the plastic industry, most notably the <a href="http://www.plasticsindustry.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">American Progressive Bag Alliance</a>, a pro-plastic lobbying group run by <a href="https://www.americanchemistry.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">the American Chemistry Council</a>. In her documentary <a href="http://plasticparadisemovie.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">Plastic Patch: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch</a>, which I initially watched after returning from India, journalist <a href="http://angelasun.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">Angela Sun</a> revealed that the council is an umbrella organization for Dow Chemical Company, DuPont and ExxonMobil.According to a recent report in <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-turner-seydel/powerful-lobbying-groups-want-to-make-sure-you-keep-using-plastic-bags_b_8307416.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none;">The Huffington Post</a>, the group is the moneybag behind legislation to ban the banning of plastic bags. These types of laws have already passed in states like Florida and Arizona. As depicted in Sun's film, the American Progressive Bag Alliance ran negative, untruthful commercials urging Californians to vote against that state's proposed plastic bag ban years ago. This year, the Iowa became the most recent state to <a href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/investigations/readers-watchdog/2017/04/10/alec-plastic-bag-ban-iowa/100189578/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none;">ban plastic bag bans</a> following a push from the organization and the American Legislative Exchange Council.<div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div>