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Long-term trends in environmental awareness 

Environmental awareness encompasses many different things, but it is generally just a term that refers to the knowledge that the public has about environmental dangers, steps to take to avoid harming the environment, and the ramifications of failing to do so. Now, you can certainly find many examples of a lack of environmental awareness or […]

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Proposition 65 complaints? Understand this act

Proposition 65, or the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, is designed to protect the state’s drinking water from contamination from chemicals that are known to lead to birth defects, cancer or other kinds of reproductive harm. Businesses are required to let Californians know if they have been exposed to those chemicals. […]

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EPA threatens funding cut for California

The Environmental Protection Agency has sent a letter to the state where it threatens to cut federal transportation funding because the state has not filed timely pollution control plans. The letter sent by EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to the state’s top air quality regulator, claims that the state allowed 130 inactive smog reduction plans to […]

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Appellate Court Upholds Decision For Water Companies On Corrosion Claims

On May 3, 2018, the Fourth Appellate District upheld the trial court’s judgment in the Williams v. Moulton Niguel Water Dist., 22 Cal. App. 5th 1198 (2018) pipe corrosion cases. Matt McMillan represented Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (“MWD”) in a bifurcated bench trial and prevailed on MWD’s defense that the plaintiffs’ claims were […]

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Proposition 65 Claims Targets Medical Cannabis Businesses

Thousands of cannabis companies, suppliers and manufacturers have been recently served with Proposition 65 (also referred to a “Prop 65”) notices. Historically, Prop 65 resulted in literally thousands if not tens of thousands of lawsuits against many different businesses and food supplies. Typically, a law firm would find a lead “plaintiff” who was ostensibly a […]

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