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-0.33 Banned in California (www.bannedincalifornia.org)
151 points by pie_flavor 4 hours ago | 169 comments on HN | Neutral Editorial · v3.7 · 2026-02-26
Summary Labor Rights & Environmental Health Undermines
Banned in California presents a technical critique of California's industrial regulatory framework, arguing that occupational health, environmental, and safety standards make it impossible to permit manufacturing facilities in the state. The content systematically frames such regulations as burdensome restrictions without acknowledging their rationales—protecting workers from toxic exposure, communities from environmental contamination, and the public from health hazards. By omitting worker voices, union perspectives, and the protective purposes of regulation, and by presenting these standards as obstacles to economic opportunity rather than as complementary rights, the content implicitly undermines Articles 2, 6, 7, 19, 23, 25, and 26 of the UDHR.
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HN Discussion 20 top-level · 22 replies
wewtyflakes 2026-02-25 23:29 UTC link
So no new car paint shops or oil refineries? I'm okay with that.
beachtaxidriver 2026-02-25 23:30 UTC link
As a resident who likes to breathe clean air and drink clean water, none of that seems all that bad.

I guess there should be an ability to do this farther from the population centers though.

raziel2701 2026-02-25 23:37 UTC link
Are other states building all this manufacturing/semiconductor capacity? I think it's an overall USA thing, we just don't do manufacturing anymore because it's cheaper to do it in another country.

Not sure what the point of the website is. To me it looks like a bad faith argument. The secular trend in the US has been to increase margins by moving manufacturing to other countries.

The tariffs are certainly not making it easier to manufacture domestically.

rising-sky 2026-02-25 23:39 UTC link
Probably helpful to add why, otherwise this is just seems intended to trigger biases
jey 2026-02-25 23:40 UTC link
I wonder if there's a law+econ analysis of comparing the current framework (regulations and upfront permitting) vs having the regulations but then enforcement via combination of randomized gov't inspections and private lawsuits. The motivation would be to allow things to move faster while also requiring the same degree of compliance, but without the massive red tape upfront with administrators having no real incentive to approve projects or move fast. One obvious downside is that it effectively creates an economic incentive to try and skirt the law and/or find loopholes, but that arguably exists to the same degree in the existing system.
Take8435 2026-02-25 23:43 UTC link
What about "Things banned in Texas"? or "Idaho"?

This has 70 upvotes within 30 minutes. This feels like an astroturf.

daedrdev 2026-02-25 23:44 UTC link
Listen y’all, it’s not just that we aren't letting companies spew chemicals into the air. The permitting and regulatory process is so extremely hostile that even when you want to and are able to do so safely and without emissions, it’s impossible.

Instead you have to ship things from out of state and other countries, which generates emissions and pollution itself that might actually be more than local production.

Its the same issue as housing. Endless rules and regulations, many of which make no attempt at doing anything but block, cause the wealth of socirty to be siphoned away. An apartment project in LA with permits complete is worth twice as much as one without. How do we see this and expect our economy to do anything except drown in bureaucracy?

My advice is dont ever manufacturing anything in CA. They will try and kill your business for simply existing no matter how perfect you are.

ortusdux 2026-02-25 23:47 UTC link
They lost me at "vacuum deposition - impossible" without justification. As far as processes go it's one of the safest (everything happens in a sealed vacuum chamber). Maybe the solvents used to clean prior to coating?
edgarvaldes 2026-02-25 23:47 UTC link
Let's be honest: People have no problem polluting elsewhere as long as they can consume the final product without suffering the consequences. TFA isn't important to the people of California.
mparkms 2026-02-25 23:47 UTC link
The creator of the website is the CEO of a battery-powered induction cooktop company. (https://x.com/sdamico)

He clearly has an agenda against what he perceives as onerous environmental regulations: https://x.com/sdamico/status/2026536815902208479 https://x.com/sdamico/status/2026552845294792994

blintz 2026-02-25 23:48 UTC link
They are playing a bit fast and loose with the word "banned".

> Your smartphone contains materials processed through semiconductor fabrication, chemical etching, metal anodizing, glass tempering, and electroplating — none of which you could start a new facility for in California without years of litigation.

I agree that we should make it easier to do things, specifically by decreasing the amount of litigation involved in doing stuff. But the risk of a bunch of litigation isn't a ban, right? I get that it's trying to be attention-grabbing, but calling it a ban when it's not just sort of confuses the issue.

yardie 2026-02-25 23:50 UTC link
Interesting website.

"Semiconductor Fabrication (7nm/5nm)

The main processor requires ultra-clean rooms, toxic gases (arsine, phosphine), and chemical etching. No new fabs have been built in CA in over a decade. Intel, TSMC, and Samsung all build elsewhere."

Phosphine is pretty nasty stuff. California was full of EPA Superfund sites when the government got stuck with cleaning up all the toxic waste. Politicians and voters went, "Eff that!" after manufacturers left the state, but left their barrels of shit behind.

burkaman 2026-02-25 23:51 UTC link
The Grandfatherd-in section is incredibly misleading. Look at the Semiconductor Fabrication section, for example. The implication is that these are the only fabs in the state, they wouldn't be able to get new permits today, and the red dots indicate that it would be "effectively impossible" to open any other ones. In fact (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...) there are at least 18 fabs in California, and these are just two random examples of particularly old ones. Obviously they couldn't reopen under the same permits they got in the 60s, why would anyone expect that to be the case?
kylecazar 2026-02-25 23:54 UTC link
Its interesting, but is there some conflation of regional restrictions with the state of California?

For example, it cites automotive paint shop restrictions as the quintessential example of what you can't do in CA, and qualifies it with a specific Bay Area regulation.

mint5 2026-02-25 23:59 UTC link
Oh I didn’t realize pineapple farms were banned in California and Alaska.

I thought they hadn’t been built for other reasons over the last decade. But according to this, not being built means banned. TIL!

Started reading this site but the massive gaps in logic and reasoning are like nails on a chalkboard.

No new fabs being built in CA means fabs are banned?!

Okay well fabs are banned in pretty much the whole country then, so why call out California?

Just because something isn’t done doesn’t mean it’s banned. Neither is it necessarily bad. There’s a lot of reasons why not to build certain things certain areas - labor cost, earthquake risk, land is more desired leading to higher cost, blah blah blah

That doesn’t mean something is banned. Maybe we should look at making some things easier but this website is just a hit piece and has a clear motivation rather than being a trustworthy evaluation.

It’s like those cringy billboards on highway 5 about Gavin newsom and water.

Edit —— Complaining that large factories can’t easily be built in dense population centers like the Bay Area means things are banned is weird - who in the right mind thinks a sprawling factory with emissions should go smack dab in the middle of population centers? Why can’t we build a new nuclear plant in Manhattan or maybe an oil refinery on wall street!? Waah waah so outrageous! None were built in the last decade so it’s the outrageous regulations fault! I want my lead battery smelter in downtown Portland but Oregon banned it! Waah waah!

Aside that, this site is mostly blaming California regulations for the nationwide manufacturing issues driven heavily by free trade

ixtli 2026-02-26 00:00 UTC link
This kinda makes me wanna move to CA. someone should take these list items and make a map of those fabs in the US so we can avoid moving near them.
chung8123 2026-02-26 00:01 UTC link
My favorite banned in CA is the "off roster" handguns that the police can buy and sell to the people of CA at a markup.
parl_match 2026-02-26 00:04 UTC link
A lot of these are stretches or remove nuance. I get the point they are trying to make, but it's a lot weaker than they think and undermined by their own "hero" example: painting cars in California

> A modern auto paint shop emits volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during primer, base coat, and clear coat application. The Bay Area AQMD makes permitting a new paint shop nearly impossible. This is THE classic example of what you can't do in CA.

Ah yes, the Bay Area, famously "all of California". And on top of that, the restrictions are mostly in highly populated areas.

wiskinator 2026-02-26 00:06 UTC link
The site would be better if it linked to the actual regulation that prohibits each type of business instead of just making the claim “0 new factories of this type have been built”.
OkayPhysicist 2026-02-26 00:11 UTC link
The claim that aluminum anodizing is "banned in California" because of the sulfuric acid waste it produces is patently absurd. There are no shortage of labs, factories, and more in California that use sulfuric acid, and they all figure out how to dispose of their waste without going "fuck it, YOLO it into the river".
akoboldfrying 2026-02-25 23:33 UTC link
Are you okay with not using products that have an oil refinery in their supply chain?
ryanobjc 2026-02-25 23:34 UTC link
Paint VOCs sounds fine, until it's done at industrial scale, and it's also your neighbor, and also all the children in the neighborhood have asthma, and also healthcare is a lot more expensive...

This list isn't things you "cant do in california" but "polluting things you can't do in highly populated cities".

I'm not sure what the conclusion here is other than health is not important.

daedrdev 2026-02-25 23:37 UTC link
Some of these items actually net improve clean air and clean water, but you’re instead happy to export those pollutants to another country to feel better yourself
thousand_nights 2026-02-25 23:38 UTC link
lol. yeah there is but instead of "farther from the population centers" it is "farther from YOUR population centers"
renjimen 2026-02-25 23:38 UTC link
> Not sure what the point of the website is

I think it's just informative. I found it interesting at least. I formed my own conclusions from it.

parhamn 2026-02-25 23:39 UTC link
I'm not from California but this to me seems like a great case to move to California. Why not ship your externality creating activities elsewhere? Its not like they pay more for the iPhone.
crawshaw 2026-02-25 23:44 UTC link
But you also want smart phones, electric cars, and a navy. There needs to be a path towards doing things other than foisting them on people who are out of sight.
richwater 2026-02-25 23:51 UTC link
> has an agenda

Everyone has an agenda. Is anything on this site false? Is it incorrect information?

encoderer 2026-02-25 23:52 UTC link
I’m happy this is coming from a real person with skin in the game and not just a veiled PAC with murky intentions.
georgemcbay 2026-02-25 23:58 UTC link
> This has 70 upvotes within 30 minutes. This feels like an astroturf.

Not really surprising given the audience, HN has an awful lot of neo-Technolibertarian types.

The kind who used to complain about government regulation of free speech, and now complain about anything that gets in the way of amassing massive amounts of capital at any social/environmental/political cost.

ch4s3 2026-02-26 00:01 UTC link
> why would anyone expect that to be the case?

Why would you expect it to be impossible?

jbellis 2026-02-26 00:01 UTC link
He's talking about taking the government to court to force it to follow the law, not "maybe we'll get sued later."
arjie 2026-02-26 00:02 UTC link
Oil refineries in particular are interesting because the sources for the blend of gasoline California requires[0] are either in CA itself or are few and far away. This means that gasoline prices are susceptible to greater supply shocks and so on. Many US regulations follow from California exercising its large market to induce companies to change their policies (electronic one-click cancel, CCPA, No Surprises in healthcare billing) but this one hasn't quite had the same effect.

One can hope that most Californians switch to BEVs from ICE vehicles before this becomes more of a constraint.

Gasoline usage externalities are poorly priced-in so the resulting increase in cost of gasoline here is probably overall a good thing. If we had appropriate carbon/sulphur/etc pricing on the outputs, I think it would be less justifiable since then the externalities would be priced in.

0: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65184

becurious 2026-02-26 00:02 UTC link
And there’s still mercury contamination from the gold rush in San Jose.
ixtli 2026-02-26 00:03 UTC link
Ya a lot of people on this site are ideologically positioned in a way that required demonizing CA. I don’t have any skin in that game but it seems pretty clearly A Thing to me from the other side of the country.
no-dr-onboard 2026-02-26 00:03 UTC link
A lot of these are actually grandfathered in. Vulcanization, electrolysis, auto painting, etc. I think the emphasis is that CA has effectively made it difficult to get regulatory authorities to agree to issue new permits. That was the part that stood out to me.
overfeed 2026-02-26 00:05 UTC link
> I guess there should be an ability to do this farther from the population centers though.

Maybe Texas is far enough? The [l]one-star state has laissez-faire regulations, and may be more to author's speed.

pixelpoet 2026-02-26 00:07 UTC link
Over the last few months to year I've noticed haaaardcore influx of random accounts created seconds before posting some divisive or incendiary comment, as well as general "shifting sands" feeling like the HN of old is getting manipulated a lot. The Claw thing feels like another such instance.

Unfortunately the time of not being able to trust anything on the internet seems to have finally arrived :/

standardUser 2026-02-26 00:08 UTC link
> The permitting and regulatory process is so extremely hostile that even when you want to and are able to do so safely and without emissions, it’s impossible.

This didn't occur in a vacuum. Business interests and their aligned politicians fought successfully for a century for their freedom to destroy human health and life in pursuit of profit. Many died, many were injured and countless more had their lifespans cut short. There's obviously legitimate concerns about over-regulation, but concerns about corporate abuse of power are just as legitimate if not more so based on the history. And it's not unopposed either, but most of the backlash in California has centered on housing construction and occupational licensing - not the rights of investors to build new industrial facilities in a post-industrial state.

Tyr42 2026-02-26 00:10 UTC link
Being unable to start a project without doing 5 years of legal wrangling once you put shovel to earth may not be a "ban", but it sure doesn't encourage development.
computerdork 2026-02-26 00:10 UTC link
Agreed, words matter. There are a lot of smart people out there, and the writer of this site makes me skeptical when he/she exaggerates, omits or spins info. Tell us all the facts at least, so we can trust you.
rbliss 2026-02-26 00:11 UTC link
I've been following Sam for awhile, his business model makes heavy use of outsourcing production of components to skilled partners. It's no sweat off him if he makes the Impulse stove in California or not.

His point is that it's impossible to manufacture much of anything in California if you aren't grandfathered in. Seems pretty important for economic and security issues.

The electric induction cooktop he and his team has made is pretty cool! I'd check it out.

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2026-02-26 01:06 rate_limit Rate limited (429), retrying in 43s - -
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build 59cf82e+tpso · deployed 2026-02-26 02:38 UTC · evaluated 2026-02-26 04:16:10 UTC