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Article: N.Y. bottle bill gets go-ahead from judge; 5-cent bottled water deposit still pending.(News)
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- August 24, 2009
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Byline: Mike Verespej
A federal judge has ruled that most of the provisions of New York state's expanded bottle deposit bill which has been challenged by bottled water companies can go into effect im- mediately.
But the extension of nickel deposits to include bottled water bottles won't go into effect until after an Oct. 22 court hearing, U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts said in her Aug. 13 decision.
Batts suggested that the provision extending deposits to bottled water would take effect after the Oct. 22 hearing, unless bottled water companies can show compliance would be impossible to achieve.
The bottled water industry is "walking ...