Taking Action for Health and Environmental
Justice
Bayview
Hunters Point, San Francisco, CA: Clean up PG&E and Hunters
Point Shipyard!
Two hundred
residents joined the August 25th “March
for Environmental Justice” organized by Greenaction to demand
safe and thorough toxic cleanups at the closed PG&E power
plant and at the Naval Shipyard site.
Victories!
Romic Toxic Waste Plants in East Palo Alto, CA & Gila
River Indian Community Close!
Greenaction,
the Gila River Alliance for a Clean Environment, Youth United
for Community Action and
allies have won the long fight to
close Romic’s dangerous hazardous waste facilities. In the
face of protests, violations of the law by Romic, and strong opposition
from the Gila River Indian Community, Romic has closed their two
controversial plants. We also pressured a toxic waste company called
Clean Harbors to drop plans to try to buy Romic at Gila River. We
are now working to make sure Romic cleans up toxic contamination
at both facilities.
Greenaction
Opens Office in the San Joaquin Valley, California! Kings County
Residents Unite!
We have
opened a field office in Hanford in Kings County, in the
heart of the San Joaquin Valley. We are helping unite communities
to change the historic pro-polluter policies of county officials.
Greenaction and community groups held a press conference on August
22, 2007 to kick off our new campaigns in the region.
Challenging
the Environmental Racism of the US EPA!
On September
10th Greenaction and the West County Toxics Coalition held a successful
protest
at a US EPA conference to expose EPA’s
pro-polluter policies that put corporate profit ahead of community
health and the environment. In a direct action, Greenaction and
community members took the microphone and spoke out at the start
of the conference to tell conference participants the truth about
EPA’s violations of environmental justice.
Richmond,
California Environmental Health and Justice Project launched!
Greenaction
and the West County Toxics Coalition have launched new campaigns
to reduce pollution in this community plagued by refineries,
chemical plants and other dirty industries. On September 8th
Greenaction and WCTC held a successful protest against Chevron’s planned
expansion. We are also targeting Myers Container Storage that
emits air pollution from burning hazardous waste residues. This
summer we began the Richmond Environmental Health and Justice
Leadership Institute to train community members in community organizing.
Kettleman
City, San Joaquin Valley, California: Stop the Toxic Dump Expansion!
No More PCBs!
Greenaction
is helping residents of this farmworker community fight
proposed expansion of the Chem Waste Management toxic waste dump.
We helped organize a big turnout of residents and grassroots supporters
from across the Valley to speak out at the March 27th USEPA hearing
on the dump issue, and have mobilized 125 groups across the U.S.
to support the campaign by residents and Greenaction against the
proposed expansion.
Greenaction
and Avenal Residents Organize Against Dumping of Los Angeles’ Trash
in Local Dump!
Greenaction
has helped residents form a community group that is now actively
organizing against the local dump which
has serious
odor problems and imports waste all the way from Los Angeles.
West Berkeley,
California: Stop Pollution from Pacific Steel Casting! Safe Jobs
and Clean Air!
Greenaction
is supporting residents in their fight to stop noxious
odors and significant emissions from Pacific Steel Casting. We
are pressuring the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and
the
City to do their job and force PSC to eliminate odors and dramatically
reduce pollution. We want healthy air for workers and residents.
No Desert
Rock Coal-Fired Power Plant on Navajo Nation land (New Mexico)!
Stop Global Warming!
Greenaction
is working with Navajo grassroots groups and allies
to defeat a proposed coal-fired power plant that threatens community
health, traditions, culture and sacred sites and would increase
global warming.
Victory!
Tohono O’odham Indigenous Peoples,
Mexican communities & Greenaction
Stop Mexican Hazardous Waste Dump Project for now!
Greenaction
is helping the O’odham peoples in Mexico and the U.S.
oppose Mexico’s plans to build a giant hazardous waste
landfill near villages and sacred sites in Quitovac in Sonora,
Mexico. We brought together an alliance of environmental justice
and Indigenous groups and worked with tribal members
to hold protests in Arizona, California and Mexico. In a big
victory,
we have forced the Mexican government to admit that the project
cannot proceed due to opposition of the local municipality.
Los
Angeles and around the World: Stop “Incinerators in Disguise”
Greenaction
is continuing our campaign to defeat industry attempts to site
gasification, pyrolysis and plasma arc
incinerators for treatment of hazardous, solid, medical waste,
sewage sludge and tires. While the industry claims these technologies
are “recycling” and “renewable
energy,” in reality these “incinerators-in-disguise” heat
wastes and then burn the toxic gases and produce toxic emissions.
We support pollution prevention, increased recycling and real
renewable energy instead of incineration technologies. Our report
on this
issue, including case studies, is available on our website www.greenaction.org.
We are providing information to communities, environmental groups,
government agencies and media around the world on this issue.
Red Bluff,
CA: Stop the InEnTec Plasma Arc Incinerator in Disguise!
Greenaction
is fighting InEnTec’s attempt to overturn our
historic victory in our appeal of their permits for a plasma arc
facility to treat medical wastes in Red Bluff, California. This
battle has national and international implications, and we continue
to mobilize residents to pressure InEnTec to abandon this project.
San Leandro,
CA: Environmental health and justice project starting up!
Greenaction
is working with the community group Healthy San Leandro
Collaborative to reduce pollution from the dozens of polluting
industries and diesel truck operations in this community. We’ve
helped research many of these industries and with the community
will now challenge the biggest polluters
to reduce their pollution.
Colorado
River Indian Tribes, Arizona: Shut down Siemens/Westates Carbon!
Greenaction
is helping Colorado River Indian Tribes members oppose
the continued operation of the Siemens hazardous waste facility
on tribal lands. Westates emits dioxin and other pollutants, but
the U.S. EPA has allowed the company to operate without proper
permits or full environmental review.
Stanislaus
County, San Joaquin Valley, California: Shut the Covanta Garbage
Incinerator!
Greenaction
and the Grayson Neighborhood Council are continuing
our campaign against the Covanta garbage incinerator in this low-income
Latino area. We are currently working with residents to encourage
county and city officials to support recycling instead of incineration.
North
Salt Lake City, Utah: Shut Stericycle Medical Waste Incinerator – Sterilize,
Don’t Burn the Waste!
Greenaction
works with families living next to the incinerator and with parents
whose kids go to nearby
schools. Stericycle burns medical
waste shipped from many states, emitting dioxin and other pollutants
in the air. Stericycle must switch to safer non-incineration technologies
to protect the health of residents and workers.
San Francisco
and Hayward, CA: Stop fossil fuel power plants and global warming!
Greenaction
is helping communities fight proposals for new gas fired
fossil fuel power plants. We support energy conservation and clean,
green, renewable energy, not more polluting power plants.
