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Greenaction
Winter 2012 Campaign Report |
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Alerts!
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12/9/10 Greenaction
Report exposes flawed and biased state sutdy on Kettleman
City Birth Defects, as EPA issues huge fine against Chem
Waste. Read
the Report, and read
about the big fine.
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12/09/10 Take
Action! Stop Chem Waste Toxic Dump in Kettleman City! Read
the Fact Sheet.
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6/20/10 Kettleman
residents file state and
federal
Title VI civil rights complaint against Kings County
for racial discrimination
during Chem Waste permit process. See press
release.
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3/10/10 Greenaction
Proves State Withheld Number of Kettleman City Birth Defects,
Number Much Higher
Than Previously Admitted, read Hanford
Sentinel story.
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3/3/10 Number
of Birth Defects in Kettleman City grows, read letter
to Governor about state’s flawed investigation.
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1/29/10 Victory!
California Governor Schwarzenegger Orders State Investigation
of birth defects and pollution in Kettleman
City. Read Governor's
statement and media coverage in
Los Angeles Times (January
30 and 29), Fresno
Bee, Hanford
Sentinel, and AP
Wire, via SF Examiner.
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1/20/10 Kettleman
City residents & Greenaction File Lawsuit Against Kings
County to Stop Toxic Waste Dump Expansion Permit. Read Press
release.
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1/13/10 VICTORY!
Chem Waste Drops Plan to Dump Radioactive Waste in Kettleman
City! Read victory
press release and Waste
Management's letter.
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New
report on Environmental Racism and Cumulative Impacts of Pollution:
Still Toxic After All These Years: Air Quality and Environmental
Justice in the San Francisco Bay Area. Read the report (3.3MB)
and Press
Release, plus opinion
piece, newspaper
coverage and Fact
Sheet! |
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Climate
Change
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California
Environmental Justice Coalition Opposes Carbon Trading as Phony
Climate Change Solution. Read more at www.ejmatters.org. |
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Environmental Justice for Bayview Hunters Point, San
Francisco!
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Bayview
Hunters Point businesses show support for new laws and regulations
for anti-idling vehicles to reduce diesel emissions. |
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Greenaction & Bayview
Hunters Point Residents Take Action to Stop Lennar Corp.’s
Pollution at Shipyard See press
release and SFBG
opinion piece. |
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Campaign for Safe Cleanup at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard |
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Reduce
Diesel Pollution Campaign - Fact sheets and newsletters |
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Stop Incinerators in Disguise!
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New
Presentation - Greenaction
Expose of Incinerators in Disguise – Gasification,
Pyrolysis and Plasma Arc (8MB) |
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Read
new report by Greenaction and Global Alliance for Incinerator
Alternatives: “Incinerators
in Disguise, Case Studies of Gasification, Pyrolysis and Plasma
Arc in Europe, Asia and the United States." (En
Espanol) |
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Stop Sun Energy's
Plasma Arc Incinerator Proposal in New Orleans. See Greenaction fact
sheet and technical
comments. |
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Victory! Greenaction & Pajaro
Valley Coalition for Environmental Justice Defeat Plasma Arc
Incinerator proposed
in Watsonville, CA – read press
release, county
letter and news coverage in Santa
Cruz Sentinel and Watsonville
Register-Pajaronian. Read
the Fact Sheet
in English and Espanol,
and see the Santa
Cruz Sentinel story. |
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8/26/08 Greenaction
Releases “Toxic
Scandal, Toxic Threat” Report on Sacramento’s
Proposed Plasma Arc project |
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2/27/08 Greenaction
Exposes Sacramento’s Plan for Plasma Arc Incinerator
in Disguise – read
more in Sacramento Bee. |
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6/16/08 Breaking
News: Victory! Red Bluff Residents & Greenaction Defeat
InEnTec’s Proposed Plasma Arc Incinerator in Disguise! Read victory
press release! Read background
information and see news
coverage. |
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3/10/08 Greenaction
Report Exposes Florida Plasma Arc Incinerator In Disguise
Proposals |
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Greenaction
International Campaigns in Asia against Incinerators in Disguise. Read
about campaign in Japan, Malaysia and Philippines. Greenaction
and Malaysian Groups Fight Melaka Waste-to-Energy Incinerator
Proposal, read
news story. |
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7/27/06 Read fact sheets on Incineration: Waste
of Energy, Thermoselect
Reality Check, Incinerators in Disguise (English, Spanish) |
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Stop Pacific Steel Casting's Pollution
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Watch YouTube
Video of Protest Against Pac Steel’s
Pollution |
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Fact
sheet and Action Alert!
Stop Pacific Steel’s
Pollution! Save Jobs, Protect Community and Worker Health! |
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2/07/08 Community
Air Monitoring Tests Prove High Levels of Toxic Metals Linked
to Pacific Steel - See
the results!
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Pollution Prevention, No Incineration!
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10/21/08 Greenaction & North
Salt Lake City, Utah residents campaign to shut Stericycle
waste incinerator. Read Greenaction Comments
Opposing Stericycle Incinerator Permit. Read new press
coverage.
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Greenaction & North
Salt Lake City, Utah residents campaign to shut Stericycle
waste incinerator. Read News Coverage of Big
Public Meeting and concern
about schools and homes next to incinerator, plus Division
of Air Quality investigation. Read Read Excellent
story “A Hazardous Neighbor” in Desert News, Fact
Sheet and background, press
release and Health Care Without
Harm information. Read Salt
Lake City Weekly Story. |
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Indigenous
Lands Environmental Health, Justice
and Sovereignty Project
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Historic
Victories! Communities & Greenaction Force Toxic Polluter
Romic To Shut Down Hazardous Waste Plants on Gila River Indian
Community, Arizona and East Palo Alto, CA! Read State
of California announcement, plus Greenaction
statement, press coverage and background. |
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Stop
the Proposed Desert Rock Power Plant, Navajo Nation! |
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Greenaction
joins Navajo community in fight against proposed Desert Rock
power plant. Read
the facts.
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Shut Down Siemens Toxic Waste Plant at Colorado River Indian
Tribes |
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Tribal Members & Greenaction Oppose
Siemens hazardous waste facility at Colorado
River Indian Tribes (CRIT) reservation! Read press
coverage. |
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Stop
Dumping Radioactive and Toxic Waste on Sacred Ute Sites at
White Mesa, Utah |
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Tell
IUC and Department of Energy to Stop Dumping Radioactive
and Toxic Wastes on Sacred Indian Land at White Mesa, Utah!
Read the background, fact sheet, news stories and how you
can help! Read the civil rights complaint filed by White Mesa Concerned
Community.
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Read High Country News Article on White Mesa
issue, Salt Lake City Tribune Story and Editorial,
Salt Lake City Weekly story: "Devil's Dirt",
and about Greenaction,
White Mesa Ute press conference.
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San
Joaquin Valley
Environmental Health & Justice Project
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6/19/08 Greenaction
and Kettleman City residents fight proposed expansion of toxic
dump – read
the news coverage! Read new
action alert! |
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Read
comments
submitted to Kings County Planning Agency by Greenaction,
El Pueblo Para El Aire y Agua Limpio, Lucha Por Salud Justicia
Ambiental, Kids Protecting our Planet and Center on Race, Poverty
and the Environment. |
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Greenaction
and Community Groups Kick-Off Kings County Environmental Justice
Campaign and Opens New Office in San Joaquin Valley! Read newspaper
story, fact
sheet and press
release. |
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3/27/07 Kettleman
City residents, Greenaction and supporters Denounce US EPA Environmental
Racism & PCB dumping
permits. See letter
from environmental justice groups across the country to US EPA.
See press coverage: Hanford
Sentinel 3/28, Fresno
Bee 3/12, and Hanford
Sentinel Op Ed piece. |
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128
Groups from US and worldwide denounce US EPA’s environmental
racism towards residents of Kettleman City, California living
near giant toxic dump. Read the letter
signed by 128 groups and press
release. Read technical
comments from Greenaction & El Pueblo to US EPA. |
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Kettleman
City, CA residents and Greenaction fight proposed expansion
of Chem Waste Management toxic waste dump. Read fact
sheet and earlier news
story. Kettleman City Residents Reject
Cash for Trash! Read
front page story in Hanford Sentinel.
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Shut
the Covanta Incinerator in Stanislaus County! Read
more... |
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Learn
all about toxic sites
in Stanislaus County!
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West Oakland Fights for
Health and Environmental Justice!
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March 2004 AMCO
Chemcial Vinyl Chloride site placed on Superfund list -
Greenaction and community demand safe, full and prompt
cleanup. |
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Support
the Precautionary Principle!
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Read
New
Fact Sheet and background
on Precautionary Principle: Preventing Harm Before It Happens |
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6/18/03
San Francisco Passes
Historic
Precautionary Principle Ordinance!
Read SF Chronicle
Editorial |
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Stop
Cancer Where It Starts!
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Stop Cancer Where it Starts: Read
background, facts about the Cancer Industry and why we need
to prevent cancer. |
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Stop
Diesel Pollution
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Read
about the San
Francisco Diesel Pollution
Campaign and the Diesel Fact
Sheet! And read the Biodiesel
Fact Sheet! |
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3/31/03
Greenaction
and Stop Diesel Coalition Press Conference Calls for Dumping Old Diesel
Buses |
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Zero
Dioxin and Persistent Bioaccumulative
Toxics (PBTS)
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Check out the
Dioxin
Fact Sheet
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Información en
Español
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