CALPIRG and Save Our Shores spearhead a campaign to ban plastic bags in cities that will hopefully lead to a statewide ban. Local businesses show their support by signing the petition for the city of Santa Cruz to ban single-use plastic bags.

More than one hundred opponents of Proposition 23 gathered at the Valero gas station on Mission Street near downtown last Sunday to protest the California initiative funded by major Texas oil companies Valero and Tesoro. The initiative would repeal AB32 of 2006: the California Global Warming Solutions Act.