在20世纪90年代初，科学家就调查出防晒霜和其他含有化学物质的个人用品对环境的影响。然后在2015年全球范围内的研究中发现在美属维尔京群岛、以色列和夏威夷群岛，氧苯酮会极大地滤掉珊瑚的养分。在一些热带的生态旅游景点和私人度假村已经禁止使用相似的防晒产品了。

Democrat Sen. Mike Gabbard of Hawaii introduced Senate Bill No. 2571, whose text states, "These chemicals have also been shown to degrade corals' resiliency and ability to adjust to climate change factors and inhibit recruitment of new corals."

夏威夷的民主党议员迈克·加巴德提出了第2571号参议院法案，在法案中提到，“这些化学成分也会降低珊瑚的可恢复性和适应气候变化的能力，而且还会抑制新珊瑚的生长。”

"When you think about it, our island paradise, surrounded by coral reefs, is the perfect place to set the gold standard for the world to follow," Gabbard told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

加巴德告诉《檀香山星广报》说：“想想看，你会发现，我们被珊瑚礁围绕的美丽家园正是全世界保护珊瑚礁的标杆和榜样的不二之选。”

An NPR article found that the chemicals appear in "more than 3,500 of the world's most popular sunscreen products," including those produced by the brands Hawaiian Tropic, Coppertone and Banana Boat, and different estimates place the number of products between 40 and 70 percent of products currently on the market.

美国公共广播电台网站上的一篇文章指出，这些化学物质在“超过3500种全世界最畅销的防晒产品”里都有出现，包括Hawaiian Tropic，Coppertone和Banana Boat等品牌，根据不同的估算结果，差不多有40%至70%的在售防晒产品都含有这些化学物质。

The proposed ban fairly exhaustively "includes but is not limited to lotion, paste, balm, ointment, cream, solid stick applicator, brush applicator, roll-on applicator, aerosol spray, non-aerosol spray pump, and automated and manual mist spray."

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