Prohibition On Contaminating Drinking Water With Chemicals Known to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity. No person in the course of doing business shall knowingly discharge or release a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity into water or onto or into land where such chemical passes or probably will pass into any source of drinking water, notwithstanding any other provision or authorization of law except as provided in Section 25249.9.
Cal. Health & Safety Code § 25249.5
Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986
Applied in 38 court decisions — leading case 6 Cal. 4th 965 - Potter v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (1993)
Most recently applied in Nationwide Biweekly Admin., Inc. v. Superior Court of Alameda Cnty. (June 2018)
Added November 4, 1986, by initiative Proposition 65
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