The fire on the gas stove. Image by Seiya TabuchiOPINION – Football season doesn’t start until September, but the California State Assembly is already on the field and running to score points with a favorite political football: gas cooking.
In 1986, when California voters approved Proposition 65, they effectively enacted a nationwide law, whether they intended to or not. The ballot measure, known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, requires all businesses, including product manufacturers, to warn Californians about any significant exposures to chemicals that could cause cancer, birth defects or reproductive harm.