If you lived in New York City at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, you may remember the “soda wars.” The battle waged by then-Mayor Mike Bloomberg to curb the consumption of sugary ...

Either under the influence of small-business owners, soda-industry lobbyists, or people just frustrated with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a New York judge effectively killed the city's controversial ban ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York State should tax sugary soft drinks to curb obesity and recoup some of the billions of dollars it spends each year to treat people with diabetes and other diseases, ...

Seltzer is a high-pressure business. And you can see it—all 65 pounds per square inch of it—at the filling station at Brooklyn Seltzer Boys, New York’s last remaining seltzer factory, located in ...

NEW YORK, March 8 (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged state legislators to levy a tax on soda, saying the money raised would help plug the state's shortfalls in health care and ...