Article: SENATE, ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE LEADERS UNVEIL EXPANDED BOTTLE BILL PROPOSAL

Article: EDITORIAL: Heed Students On Bottle Bill.(Editorial)
Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT);  March 7, 2007 ;     517 words ... ... expanding Connecticut's bottle bill to include containers ... the legislature's environment committee that Connecticut was ... pass the original bottle bill more than 25 years ... reasons, expanding the bottle bill to include water and ...

Article: Gov. wants to bottle bill; Hawaii's new governor ...
Waste News;  February 3, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... return. Backers of the bottle bill say it will reduce ... sponsor of the original bottle bill predicts the governor ... be referred to the environment committee, which she chairs ... some tweaking of the bottle bill, but other than that ...

Article: Kentucky Lawmakers Are Reluctant to Support 'Bottle ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  February 25, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... legislation known as the "bottle bill" became law. House ... Natural Resources and Environment Committee took no action on ... Here's how the bottle bill would work: Consumers ... executives who think the bottle bill would cost their industry ...

Article: Tougher Bottle Bill Law Sought: Students Challenge ...
Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT);  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... expanding the state's bottle bill to include water and ... efforts to expand the bottle bill have faced opposition ... efforts to expand the bottle bill failed in the General ... the legislature's environment committee. The students helped ...

Article: Bottle bill hits Senate committee.(Brief Article)
Plastics News;  July 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... version of a national bottle bill and to call attention ... power as head of the environment committee. Jeffords' hearing ... his preference for a bottle bill. He said California ... putting in a national bottle bill would raise the U ...

Article: EDITORIAL: Support A Better Bottle Bill.(Editorial)
Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT);  March 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... years of experience with the bottle bill is any indication, a 5-cent ... efforts to expand Connecticut's bottle bill have run into resistance from ... week, the General Assembly's environment committee approved a good bill that would ...

Article: Connecticut Post, Bridgeport, Ken Dixon column: Bottle ...
Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT);  May 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Legislature, the so-called bottle bill makes a lot of sense. The day ... missing from its coffin. The bottle bill lives on as an amendment that ... Milford, co-chairmen of the Environment Committee, who might have a short list ...