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Why Are We Still Talking About California Prop 65?
For readers who have been following us, you have likely seen our posts tracking California’s consumer right to know law, Prop 65, along with its new amendments and significant litigation.…
The Daily Intake
EPA Refuses to Approve Glyphosate Labels with Proposition 65 Cancer Warning
In a direct rebuke of Proposition 65’s listing of glyphosate as a carcinogen, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a press release on August 8, 2019 announcing that it…
Kelley Green Law
Prop 65 Battle Royale over Glyphosate: EPA vs. OEHHA
The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), which administers Proposition 65, wasted no time in punching back at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which declared, in an…
Drug & Device Law
Finally, Some Sanity About Roundup
By Bexis
While it’s not prescription medical product liability litigation, per se, we’ve been aghast, scratching our heads about the recent litigation firestorm surrounding the pesticide Roundup and its active ingredient, glyphosate. …
Product Liability & Mass Torts Blog
California’s Prop 65 Amendments One Year Later: Litigation Trends and What to Look Out For
By Emilie McGuire, Alex Garel-Frantzen, Jeffrey D. Skinner
Over the past 10 years, the number of private Proposition 65 actions against businesses have nearly quadrupled from 604 in 2009 to 2,364 in 2018. Additional Prop 65 regulations on…
Kelley Green Law
Proposition 65 Enforcement Trend Alert: Plastic Packaging
The latest front in the ever-expanding Proposition 65 enforcement battle: plastic packaging. Since the start of the year, dozens of notices of violation have been filed, not for actual products,…
From the Ground Up
Judging Java: California Reverses Need for Proposition 65 Warnings on Coffee
By Tyler Bowlin
California’s coffee industry breathed a collective sigh of relief earlier this month when the state’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (“OEHHA”), the agency charged with implementing Proposition 65, finalized…
Climate Solutions Legal Digest
California’s OEHHA Finalizes Regulation Rescinding Warning Requirement for Coffee
By Emily Lyons
On June 7, 2019, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced that it has adopted a final regulation eliminating the requirement for coffee to carry a Proposition 65…
Consumer products law blog
What now? California finalizes Prop 65 exemption for coffee
On June 3, 2019, the California Office of Administrative Law approved a regulation adopted by the California Environmental Office of Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) exempting chemicals in coffee from Prop…
Stoel Rives Environmental Law
California Landlords May Need to Take Additional Steps by July 2019 to Comply with Prop 65
By Melissa A. Jones, Bao M. Vu
INTRODUCTION California apartment and other residential rental property landlords and their agents (e.g., property managers) with more than 10 employees need to comply with the State’s Safe Drinking Water and…