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Kansas business groups mobilize to stop local plastics bans

by AP Political Writer
| February 21, 2020 12:30 PM

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas business groups have mobilized to snuff out a budding movement among a few cities to ban single-use plastic bags and straws, frustrating environmentalists who can't get the Republican-controlled Legislature to tackle climate issues.

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