Environmental & Energy,
Administrative/Regulatory
May 21, 2013
Gov. Brown's proposed Prop. 65 reform is a good start
Of course, the devil is in the details, and whether and to what extent these general concepts are transformed into actual law is to be seen.
Joshua A. Bloom
Principal, Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson PLC
environmental law
555 12th St Ste 1500
Oakland , CA 94607
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Email: jbloom@meyersnave.com
University of San Francisco School of Law
Joshua is in the firm's Land Use and Environmental Law Practice Groups. With more than 25 years of experience, he specializes in all areas of state and federal environmental and natural resources law, including complex environmental litigation, brownfields, environmental aspects of transactional matters, and compliance counseling, representing both public and private clients.
A well-intended statute with unintended consequences. That would be an apt description of California's Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, better known as Proposition 65. In response to what Gov. Jerry Brown characterized as "frivolous 'shakedown' lawsuits" and abuse "by some unscrupulous lawyers driven by profit rather than public health," the governor has now proposed a series of reforms to Prop. 65 that are long past due. Coming on the heels of other Prop. 65 reform...
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