Purpose:
To identify major sources of persistent bioaccumulative toxins (PBT) in the Bay Area and recommend technical and policy solutions for reducing these pollutants in the Bay food chain.

The purpose of our Healthy Bay Project is to identify major sources of persistent bioaccumulative toxins (PBT) in the Bay Area and recommend technical and policy solutions for reducing these pollutants in the Bay food chain. The project will include an analysis of the controls that apply to each source and specific actions that could (and should) be taken to reduce releases. The three targets of the campaign include policy makers, pollution dischargers themselves, and consumers whose behavior can ultimately lead to releases of PBT pollutants through their use of products. We seek to translate our reduction strategies and inventory of PBTs into advocacy tools for Bay users. Project staff will generate a report that will explain industrial processes, land use practices, and consumer product uses that result in PBT accumulation in the Bay. The report will arm activists with concrete economic and technical facts needed to demand and win reductions in emissions and discharges that accumulate in the Bay and then harm people who eat fish from the Bay.

Primary Contact for the Project:
Lena Brook
Phone: (415) 369-9160
Email: lbrook@clearwater.org