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Recounts how California surfers with the help of the Surfrider Foundation, sued two polluting pulp mills. Expectation of a heavy penalty on the mills; Impact of the untreated toxic soup on the water of the Pacific; Efforts of the mills to cleanse effluent.

The article reports on a protest initiated by the officials of conservation group Sierra Club against San Francisco, California-based Standard Oil Co. in 1970. It states that the move is triggered by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico due to an offshore well managed by Chevron Oil, a subsidiary of Standard Oil. Moreover, it notes that the group planned to make legal actions to protect the right of the public to have a clean environment.