The EPA has not actually taken action to regulate these today," said northern Kentucky attorney Rob Bilott.
The chemicals in question are called PFOS and PFOA.
You don’t want high levels of them in your drinking water.
Botkins has ulcerative colitis.
On Thursday, the EPA announced both a short-term and long-term action plan, helping localities clean up and potentially setting maximum PF chemical levels for water.
We found it in communities in their drinking water systems.
"It shouldn’t take 20, 30 years to regulate and set drinking water standards for a chemical in this country, in the United States.
That should not be the way things happen," he said.
Both Cincinnati and northern Kentucky water works say there are no detectable PF chemicals in local drinking water.
However, a scientific study found elevated levels of PFOA in a test group of northern Kentucky girls about a decade ago.