The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced that the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee (DARTIC) of OEHHA’s Science Advisory Board will consider whether perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and it salts, perfluorooctane  sulfonate (PFOS) and its salts, n-hexane, and nickel and nickel compounds should be listed as reproductive toxicants under Proposition 65.

California’s proposed regulatory requirement to identify at least some of the Proposition 65-listed chemicals in the required warning is ambiguous, according to comments submitted by industry. Proposition 65—also known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986—prohibits knowingly exposing any individual to a listed chemical without first providing a "clear and reasonable warning" to such individual.

California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), which administers Proposition 65, has finalized a rule that will establish a “Lead Agency Website” to provide additional information to consumers on exposure to listed chemicals.  The rule’s Final Text can be accessed through OEHHA’s website. 

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced that it would not proceed with a regulation proposed in January 2015 to replace the current regulatory warning requirements under Proposition 65, which included a requirement to identify a subset of Prop 65-listed chemicals in the required warning.  Rather, OEHHA retracted the proposal and issued a new requirement which expands the requirement to identify the subset of chemicals to include all Prop 65-listed chemicals.

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) added Aloe vera, non-decolorized whole leaf extract and Goldenseal root powder to the list of chemicals known to the State to cause cancer under Proposition 65, effective December 4, 2015.

The California Attorney General's Office recently proposed regulations intended to reform the private enforcement of Proposition 65.  Specifically, the Attorney General intends to limit the settlement funds diverted away from the State's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), the agency that administers Proposition 65; increase the transparency of settlements in private party Proposition 65 cases; and reduce the financial incentives for private plaintiffs to bring and settle Proposition 65 cases that do not confer substantial public benefit.