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Government

Mar. 30, 2010

Proposition 65 on Steroids

Gene Livingston of Greenberg Traurig says the Green Chemistry Law grants unprecedented authority to a state agency to regulate the use of certain chemicals.

The state that brought you Proposition 65, a law that has produced hundreds of lawsuits and millions of dollars for bounty hunters, is now implementing a bulked-up new law, benignly nominated the Green Chemistry Law. It grants unprecedented authority to a state agency to regulate the presence of chemicals in consumer products from cradle to cradle. In comparison to Proposition 65, the legal exposures and compliance burdens will be exponentially greater.

The California L...

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