With the start of the new year, Californians will pay a new fee every time they buy a product with a non-removable battery — ...

Starting this year, California consumers will pay a 1.5% fee on all products with an embedded battery under a law aimed at ...

The fee that customers began to pay in the new year is just one piece of the state’s evolving response to an emerging risk.

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