Three paint companies who knew for years that their lead-based paints were a health hazard and who were held liable by the courts for millions of dollars in clean-up costs are behind a proposed 2018 California bond measure that would get them off the hook for this clean-up and pass along the costs to California's taxpayers instead. Beware!!
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-lead-paint-ballot-initiative-20180117-story.html
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