Prop 45 isn’t about affordability and costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Prop 45 doesn’t include a single requirement to lower your housing costs or utility bills. Instead, it shifts costs onto you: when polluters aren’t required to clean up their pollution, taxpayers pay to remove cancer-causing chemicals from our drinking water and contaminated lands. The independent non-partisan Legislative Analyst's Office estimates Prop 45 could cost taxpayers as much as $100 million every year.
Harms air and water quality and public health.
Prop 45 guts the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) — California’s most important air and water quality protection law, which requires that harm to air, water, and wildlife be disclosed and reduced before projects are approved. Prop 45 lets developers fast-track the polluting projects you don’t want next door.
Silences community voices in favor of corporate polluters.
Today, you have a say in what’s built in your neighborhood. Under Prop 45, decisions about what gets built near your home, your children’s school, and your water supply would be made with less information, less public input, and fewer ways to protect yourself.
Fast-tracks costly polluting projects.
The loopholes in Prop 45 enable its backers, including for-profit utilities, oil companies, and big developers, to fast-track projects like:
Data Centers
Forest Clear-Cutting
Dams
CO2 Pipelines
Freeway Expansions
Landfill Gas Facilities
Sprawl Housing in High Risk Fire Areas