AFL-CIO v. Deukmejian

Opinion

PUGLIA, P. J.

This appeal arises out of Proposition 65, an initiative adopted at the November 1986 General Election. The initiative, designed to protect the people and their water supply from harmful chemicals, added sections 25249.5—25249.13 to the Health and Safety Code (hereafter all statutory references to sections of an unspecified code are to this code). Section 25249.8, subdivision (a) requires the Governor, on or before March 1, 1987, to publish a list of “chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.” The list must include “at a minimum” those…