When Donald J. Trump was reelected president, we expected a significant shift from the Biden administration policies. We did not expect the massive change that has rocked the federal government.
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A regulatory policy earthquake in California has threatened to upend the state’s development of Senate Bill 54 and may have aftershocks nationwide.
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Almost six months into the 119th Congress and the second Trump administration, the government relations team in the Flexible Packaging Association has refined its approach and settled into a new and refocused cadence for industry advocacy efforts in Washington, D.C.
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At the state level, policy activity around packaging remains busy, especially regarding extended producer responsibility.
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In each of the five state’s extended producer responsibility laws, the producer responsibility organization’s plans are structured differently with various requirements.
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It appears that President Donald J. Trump’s second administration is instituting even more rigorous trade and tariff restrictions.
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Regulatory oversight will continue to be a key interest for the Flexible Packaging Association as the new administration settles in.
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As we enter 2025, we are coming off a busy year, with Minnesota passing a new packaging extended producer responsibility law and hundreds of other bills that were mostly defeated but would have created new mandates or banned certain types of flexible packaging.
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New leadership will be in place for key committees that have jurisdiction involving legislative priorities for the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA). FPA has already begun preparing for what will come.
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The year 2024 has been one of intensive regulatory activity related to extended producer responsibility for packaging in the first four states with laws. These regulations will have a lasting impact on the costs and incentives within the programs.
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