Later this year the State Water Board will be asked to approve a plan that the San Francisco Regional Water Board has put forward to address contamination in the Bay by PCBs, industrial chemicals banned in the 1970s because of their impacts on human health and the environment.

The plan is deeply flawed, lacks necessary detail to ensure actual clean up, and doesn't adequately hold responsible parties accountable for reducing the amount of PCBs still contaminating land sites and flowing into the Bay every year.

We need your help to make sure that the state does not approve the plan until it is strengthened.

In 2005, Clean Water Action faced a similar problem with the Regional Board's proposed plan to clean up mercury in the Bay. With the support of our members, 2,500 of whom signed onto a letter calling for stronger pollution prevention actions in the plan, we succeeded in getting the State Board to reject the plan and return it to the Regional Board with specific guidelines on how to strengthen it.

The result was a much stronger plan which was accepted by both the State and federal EPA in 2007 and that included most of the features we had advocated for

Our goal is to get at least the same number of signatures this time for the proposed PCBs plan.

Please sign on to the letter and ask the State Water Resources Control Board for a strong plan on PCBs in San Francisco Bay!