Western Crop Protection Ass'n v. Davis

Opinion

BLEASE, J.

This is an appeal from an adverse judgment in an action seeking a writ of mandate to prohibit the Governor from publishing a list of chemicals as known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity, as provided in Proposition 65, an initiative adopted at the November 1986 General Election.

The initiative, designed to protect the people and their water supplies from harmful chemicals, added sections 25249.5 through 25249.13 to the Health and Safety Code. Section 25249.8 requires the Governor to publish, at least annually, a list of chemicals known to the state to cause…