San Francisco, Oakland, Albany, California, and Boulder, Colorado, will join Berkeley and Philadelphia in charging an extra penny or two per ounce for sugar-sweetened beverages.
This post was originally written by Tove Danovich and was published on Take Part. The original article can be found here. Soda taxes are continuing to bubble up throughout the United States. After Berkeley, California’s soda tax brought in $1.2 million […]
A recent study suggests that an estimate of 12.5 million (17 per cent) of U.S. children are obese; three times as much as thirty years ago, with sugary drinks accounting for an alarming amount of daily calorie consumption. Now the […]
Both sides have been pouring money into ad campaigns, slinging mud and twisting words. But this is not the Presidential election, it’s the battle for soda. Today, a panel in New York City is expected to approve the ban of soda and […]
EL MONTE – A judge on Tuesday threw out the city’s Measure H soda tax ballot title and language after finding they were biased, false and misleading, according to court documents. Backed by attorneys from the Washington-DC American Beverage Association, […]
The soda tax is back on the table, and this time proponents say that a tax of a penny per ounce of sugar-sweetened beverage would not only raise $13 billion a year but also save $17 billion in medical costs […]
A Lincoln lawmaker is proposing to levy a sales tax on soft drinks and use the money to pay for a new obesity prevention program in Nebraska. Senator Bill Avery. Currently, soda is exempted from sales taxes in Nebraska. Via […]