As You Sow v. Mega Power, Inc., et al.

The Superior Court of California for the city and county of San Francisco entered a Consent Judgment in 1995 in As You Sow v. Mega Power, Inc., et al., which resolved private enforcer As You Sow's allegations that the defendant Mega Power sold certain paints and solvent products containing tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene) in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.

As part of the settlement, Mega Power agreed as of January 1, 1996, that it shall not ship (or cause to be shipped) in the State of California covered products unless such products were accompanied by a Proposition 65 health hazard warning in compliance with section 1 of the Agreement.

The Consent Judgment required a civil penalties payment of $500, 75% of which was paid to California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. An additional payment of $4,700 was required, divided therein between a restitution payment to the West County Toxics Coalition and a cost payment used by the whistleblower AYS as compensation for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.