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How To Reduce Lead Exposures With One Simple Statute: The Experience Of Proposition 65, Clifford Rechtschaffen
How To Reduce Lead Exposures With One Simple Statute: The Experience Of Proposition 65, Clifford Rechtschaffen
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Human exposure to lead is one of the most serious environmental health threats today. Lead causes a variety of adverse health effects and is particularly harmful to children. Unfortunately, the current regulation of lead exposures is fragmented and often unsuccessful. California's Proposition 65, a right-to-know initiative, however, has achieved some noteworthy successes in reducing public exposures to lead. Proposition 65 has spurred faster and more significant lead reductions than federal law by prompting companies to reformulate products and change their manufacturing processes. This Article first discusses the hazards and uses of lead. The author next describes several instances that demonstrate …
The Lead Poisoning Challenge: An Approach For California And Other States, Clifford L. Rechtschaffen
The Lead Poisoning Challenge: An Approach For California And Other States, Clifford L. Rechtschaffen
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This Article describes a comprehensive framework for addressing lead-based paint hazards that balances the panoply of competing interests and affected stakeholders. The framework is broadly applicable to the overwhelming number of states that have not yet adopted preventative lead laws; this Article focuses in particular on California to illustrate the types of challenges that these states are likely to confront. The proposed approach is based on the recommendations of a congressionally mandated national task force, modified to address the specific needs of California. Recognizing the enormity of the lead-based paint problem (over 8.6 million housing units in California may have …