A coalition of environmental groups and state lawmakers on Tuesday called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to put in place tougher rules to reduce plastic pollution in the oceans and across California’s landscape, five months after he halted proposed new regulations that plastics companies opposed.

At a news conference outside the state Capitol building featuring a large pile of plastic food containers, bubble wrap and other used plastic packaging, the environmentalists said Tuesday that under industry pressure, the Newsom administration has weakened proposed rules that the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, known as CalRecycle, drafted after he signed a landmark law, SB 54, three years ago.

That first-in-the-nation law set targets to force companies to use less plastic in pa

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