US Politics
The Cost of a Modern Kitchen: California's Quartz Ban and the Scourge of Silicosis
California is set to become the first state to ban the production and installation of man-made quartz due to a surge in deadly silicosis cases among countertop workers. It is a tragic and horrifying indictment of a system that allowed known industrial dangers to sacrifice human lives, often among our most vulnerable immigrants, for the sake of modern kitchen aesthetics.
