Plastic Pollution Coalition filed a series of Clean Water Act citizen suits against plastic manufacturers for discharges to waterways that contained plastic and other pollutants. As a result of these lawsuits, Plastic Pollution Coalition obtained settlements to remediate plastic pollution and to mitigate its impacts in the San Francisco Bay watershed.
It's taken seven years, but California is finally cleaning up microbead pollution: Nonprofits are using the state's new stormater requirements to sue plastic manufacturers for polluting waterways - and they are winning
Plastic Pollution Coalition
Rachel Doughty, Greenfire Law, PC
Pollution and Toxics
