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Perspective

Mar. 20, 2009

Prop. 65 Has Forced Many Businesses to Clean Up Their Acts

Academic observers have documented one success story after another of hidden toxic chemicals, exposed by Prop. 65 and quickly removed from places and products.

By David Roe and Jim Wheaton

California's Proposition 65 faced its greatest political threat 21 years ago, in the triumphal last year of the Reagan administration. Its industry opponents then had a supremely influential friend to argue to: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III. Meese, himself a Californian, was perhaps President Reagan's most trusted adviser and had been at his side for Reagan's entire political career. He also had strong ties with California industry....

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