The Center for Media and Democracy, a national watchdog group, has traced efforts to pre-empt local bag bans to December 2014, when a group funded by some of the largest plastics manufacturers in the country, called the American Progressive Bag Alliance, paid ALEC to present a workshop.
Iowa the Latest State to Outlaw Plastic Bag Bans
Source: The Des Moines Register | Published: 4/10/2017