Prop 65 / Environment

July 29, 2013
California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has added emissions from the combustion of coal to the list of chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, effective August 7, 2013. This designation is based on formal identification by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is an authoritative body under OEHHA...
March 18, 2013
Excerpted from the full length article in the San Francisco Chronicle: The Quarry Lakes are hardly pristine. The nearly treeless former industrial site in Fremont is engulfed by development and traffic. But the lakes are among the cleanest around, thanks to a ban on lead fishing tackle that's thought to be the only such ban in the state. "They are on the...