California wants to ban the toxic chemical
that gives chrome its classic shine
Los Angeles Times,
by
Tony Briscoe
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
1/26/2023 5:00:27 PM
For decades, hexavalent chromium has provided the silvery showroom finish to countless consumer products, from automobile bumpers and grilles to kitchen faucets and light fixtures. It has also served as an indispensable rust-resistant coating for aviation components, such as airplane landing gear.
But while hardened chrome is harmless, the airborne emissions from the plating process are more than 500 times more toxic than diesel exhaust, and pose a substantial cancer risk to surrounding communities.
In light of these risks, the California Air Resources Board has proposed a landmark ban on the use of so-called chrome-6 in decorative plating by 2027,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jj1319 1/26/2023 5:11:02 PM (No. 1387961)
Chrome plating causes hydrogen embrittlement. Not good.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
downnout 1/26/2023 5:22:52 PM (No. 1387965)
One of the most irritating things about do-gooders is that they rarely, if ever, weigh the pros and cons of the windmills at which they tilt. They see a problem, propose a solution and there the discussion ends. They display a stunning lack of critical thinking and analysis.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 1/26/2023 5:37:15 PM (No. 1387974)
California needs to ban stupidity. There would be no one left to run the state into the ground then.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
smokincol 1/26/2023 5:56:35 PM (No. 1388000)
if my daughter and my best friend on this earth weren't living in California I'd be praying for God to activate the San Andreas fault right at the Nevada line all the way down the Sierras to Mexico and take Washington and Oregon, too
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
skacmar 1/26/2023 6:29:00 PM (No. 1388027)
As usual, Chrome plating pollution effects minorities, women, and POC the most (amazing how everything claimed to be bad effects minorities, women, and POC the most). They will also be the one's most likely to lose their jobs when the chrome plating facilities are forced to move or close down. California seems determined to create some kind of utopia where everything is lollypops and rainbows, we all ride unicorns, and everything is powered by sunshine and air while we all live in harmony. That will of course only happen after most people move out of California due to high taxes, idiotic socialist policies, and no jobs.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Birddog 1/26/2023 6:42:54 PM (No. 1388042)
paywalled..
I have some friends that are big into hotrods and motorcycle building in Calif, as well as the magazines that "celebrate that Culture". In a state that cannot find 1000 acre wed grows, thousands of meth labs, cannot get convictions for those crimes. Urban and Rural clandestine chrome pots will become a thang...it ain't rocket surgery. Dope dealers flaunt their outlaw lifestyle with gold and diamond bling...chrome will become a new bling thing, and everyone gets to play outlaw.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JimBob 1/26/2023 6:44:07 PM (No. 1388044)
Typical 'chrome plating' is what is called 'triple-chrome' plating.
First there is a 'copper strike', a thin plating of copper over the base material. This acts sort of as a primer.
Second is a layer of nickel plating. This is most of the thickness of the plating, and has a silvery appearance, but with a slight brownish tint.
Third is the chrome plating, which is extremely thin and has a 'bluish-silver' color, this is used to kick up the brownish tint of the nickel plating to a more 'true silver' color. The nasty chemicals apparently are involved in the last step, applying the extremely thin actual chrome layer.
It's OK, Kommiefornia... just send the manufacturing (and your money) to China. They can generate the pollution, which then gets carried on the wind back to Kommiefornia.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/26/2023 7:29:46 PM (No. 1388074)
Try to buy something that doesn't have a warning that in California 'this product is found to cause cancer'. EVERYTHING: can openers, light bulbs, shoe laces, you name it. I'd be afraid to live there.
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The California Air Resources Board acknowledges that the rule would have wide-ranging effects, and estimates that several thousand jobs could be lost in manufacturing and other sectors related to chrome plating.
Not their problem, though, is it?
As for the California Communities Against Toxics' executive director's statement that "We would be working with the industry and the military to actually identify new coatings" - what's your budget for that, Jane? Or is your idea of "working with the industry" to simply reject everything as still too toxic for your liking.
I'm not a chemist, but how hard would it be to install hoods over all those dipping tanks and scrub the hexavalent chromium from the fumes? If it can't be done, well - there's always Tijuana.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 1/26/2023 8:28:52 PM (No. 1388111)
When was the last time somebody died from chromium poisoning?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 1/26/2023 10:11:49 PM (No. 1388176)
Nothing intelligent exists in California government and by extension, very little in the electorate of California.
CALIFORNICATION!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 1/26/2023 10:55:23 PM (No. 1388219)
It's California. I don't believe it is anywhere near the problem they claim.
Another MMGW scam, no doubt.
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More than affecting classic car enthusasts, this would hit California’s aerospace industry. Very interesting article.