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Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images A man with adsorbent materials cleans up oil washed ashore after a 1990 spill near Huntington Beach, California. In 1984, state officials discovered that solvents resulting from runoff electronics products had contaminated the groundwater in Silicon Valley. Three years later, just as the newly formed EPA was sanctioning Atlanta, Detroit, and Cleveland for letting companies pollute their water supplies, California was hit with news that land in some counties was contaminated with 720 pounds of nitrate per acre, and any of it could slip into the drinking-water supply. In 1968, when a corporate leak into the Dominguez Channel provoked a meager $100 fine, the Los Angeles Times complained that the state was “in serious danger of losing the fight against pollution of its irreplaceable water resources.” These labels, which ominously suggest that the product could give you cancer, all trace back to a single California law: Proposition 65.Ī shift began in the late 1960s, when a series of oil spills changed how California discussed water contamination. If you’ve gone shopping lately, you may have seen a creeping number of warning labels affixed to faux leather jackets, jewelry, even bathing suits. The policy: Chemical warning labels on products, better known as Proposition 65
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Welcome to Laboratories of Democracy, a series for Vox’s The Highlight, where we examine local policies and their impacts.
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