Across the United States, workers are suffering from, and sometimes dying of, the severe lung disease known as silicosis because they are fabricating and cutting “engineered stone” countertops for our ...

Senate Bill 20, also called the Silicosis Training, Outreach, and Prevention (STOP) Act, was signed into law by Governor Newsom on October 13, 2025. 1 Senator Caroline Menjivar is on the forefront of ...

Countertop cutters work at a dusty shop in the San Fernando Valley last year. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) New legislation in Sacramento aims to address a rise in countertop cutters ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Tuesday, Oct. 14, that aims to protect artificial stone workers from silicosis, a fatal long-term lung disease caused by breathing in respirable crystalline ...

A 40-year-old Hispanic man from Massachusetts is the state's first confirmed case of silicosis from working with engineered stone countertops. He spent 14 years cutting, polishing, and installing ...