California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday vetoed a bill that would have made California the first state in the country to mandate labels on gas stoves warning of health risks.
Newsom vetoed Assemblymember Gail Pellerin’s A.B. 2513, which would have required warning labels on natural gas stoves sold online to Californians starting next year and in stores starting in 2026.
He said the bill would have been overly prescriptive. “This static approach falls short in enabling timely updates to the labeling content that should align with the latest scientific knowledge so that consumers are accurately informed about their purchases,” he said in a veto message.
The bill is one of the embers of a national political conflagration that flared up over natural gas stoves last year and mostly died out early this year. The warning label proposal was tried in New York and Illinois along with California.
