New York City Council Hearing on Fee for Bags Becomes Heated

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Protesters gathered outside City Hall, where the City Council considered a fee on disposable bags. Credit Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times

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For years, the plastic bag has doubled as a sort of urban tumbleweed, sweeping across New York City sidewalks and encroaching ominously on its waterways, clustering on subway tracks and drifting airborne to the tree limbs of residential blocks…

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