Oregon Senate committee advances plastic bag ban
An Oregon Senate committee has advanced a bill that would make Oregon the first state to ban single-use plastic grocery bags. Full story
Acapulco police find 3 human heads
Police found three severed heads in plastic bags in the Pacific coast resort city of Acapulco, authorities said Monday. Full story
'I won't pay' movement spreads across Greece
They blockade highway toll booths to give drivers free passage. They cover subway ticket machines with plastic bags so commuters can't pay. Even doctors are joining in, preventing patients from paying fees at state hospitals. Full story
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Newborn tossed in bag, found alive
Police in Brazil rescue a newborn baby boy that had been tossed over a wall in a plastic bag. TODAYshow.com's Dara Brown reports.
A plastic bag ban in Calif.?
Environmental costs and concerns have state lawmakers in Calif. considering a vote on a plastic bag ban. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.
'Bag monsters' say ban to plastic
Dozens of people dressed as mounds of litter bags march to demand a plastic bag ban in Dallas. KXAS reporter Ashanti Blaize has the story.
Hannity trash-talks liberals
Psycho talk: Sean Hannity expressed his unhappiness with San Francisco’s ideas to cut pollution, saying when asked, “Paper or plastic, I say double plastic just to annoy liberals!”
Does big oil's influence extend to NASA?
Rachel Maddow explains NASA's Project OMEGA, an alternative energy program, and talks with NBC News space consultant James Oberg about whether the NASA administrator has a conflict of interest for discouraging Projet OMEGA while also holding a large amount of oil company stock.
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