Taking Action for Health and Environmental
Justice
Stop
Coal Power Plants! No Desert Rock power plant! It’s Time
to Stop Climate Change!
Greenaction
organized a major action at the U.S. EPA office in San Francisco
in August to protest the Bush-Cheney administration’s
push to site new coal fired power plants, including the giant
Desert Rock power plant proposed for the Navajo Nation in New Mexico.
We
brought together grassroots Navajo activists with Mohave Indians
fighting a toxic incinerator on their land, residents of the farmworker
community of Kettleman City living near the biggest toxic dump
in the west, residents of Bayview Hunters Point and many other communities
demanding EPA start protecting people instead of polluters.
Florida, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Watsonville and
Around the World: Stop Incinerators in Disguise
Greenaction
is helping lead a worldwide 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. Reports and case studies
are available
on our website. Please contact Greenaction if an incinerator in
disguise is proposed near you.
Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco, California
Twelve
Companies Sign Good Neighbor Agreements with Greenaction to Reduce
Diesel Pollution!
Greenaction & Stop Lennar Action Network Demands Total Cleanup
of Toxics at Shipyard!
We are working with residents to reduce diesel pollution that
contributes to asthma, cancer and climate change. We are educating
truck drivers
and companies about the laws against diesel vehicle idling, the
health threats from diesel, and about grants available to reduce
diesel pollution. Twelve companies signed Good Neighbor Agreements
with Greenaction pledging to comply with the law and educate their
drivers. Greenaction is part of the Stop Lennar Action Movement
and we are demanding that the developer Lennar and the US Navy
totally
and
safely clean up toxic contamination at the Hunters Point Shipyard.
Richmond,
California: Leadership Academy Trains Community Members! Stop
Chevron’s Refinery Expansion & Stop Myers
Container Storage Burning of Hazardous Materials!
Greenaction is
working with the West County Toxics Coalition and
allies to oppose expansion of the Chevron refinery that would
increase pollution in this overburdened community. We are also working
together
to stop Myers Container Storage from continuing the burning of
hazardous residues. This summer and fall, Greenaction and the WCTC
conducted
the second Richmond Environmental Health and Justice Leadership
Academy to train residents in organizing and leadership skills.
West Berkeley, California: Stop Pollution from Pacific
Steel Casting!
Greenaction is supporting residents in their fight
to stop noxious odors and toxic pollution 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. We
supported
residents in forming a new community group, the Healthy Air
Coalition.
San Francisco, California: Stop Fossil Fuel Power
Plants and Climate Change!
Greenaction
is uniting community, environmental justice and environmental
groups to fight proposed gas fired fossil fuel “Combustion
Turbine” power plants and to demand the closure of the dirty
Mirant power
plant and to support increased energy conservation and clean,
green, renewable energy.
Kettleman City, San Joaquin Valley, California: No Toxic Dump Expansion!
No More PCBs!
Greenaction is helping residents of this farmworker
community fight proposed expansion of the Chem Waste Management
toxic waste and
solid waste dump. We mobilized residents to attend and testify
at government meetings on the dump expansion, challenged the exclusion
of Latinos from the county committee making recommendations on
the
proposed dump expansion, and submitted extensive technical comments.
Stanislaus County, San Joaquin Valley, California:
Shut the Covanta Garbage Incinerator!
Greenaction
and the Grayson Neighborhood Council are stepping up
our campaign against the Covanta garbage incinerator in this low-income
Latino area. We are working with residents to encourage county
and city officials to support recycling and “zero waste” programs
instead of incineration.
San Leandro, California: New Environmental Health
and Justice Project Starts Up and Makes Waves!
Greenaction is working
with the community group, Healthy San Leandro,
to reduce pollution from the dozens of polluting industries and
diesel truck operations in this community. We have helped research
many of these industries and with the community will now challenge
the biggest polluters to reduce their pollution.
North Salt Lake City,
Utah: Shut Stericycle Medical Waste Incinerator – Sterilize,
Don’t Incinerate!
Greenaction
works with families living in a new neighborhood next to the incinerator.
Stericycle burns
medical waste (and some non-medical
waste) shipped from many states, emitting dioxin and other pollutants.
Our goal is to get Stericycle to switch to safer non-incineration
technologies to protect the health of residents and workers. Greenaction
forced the State Division of Air Quality to hold a public hearing
on October 9th and we testified about the dangers of incineration
and the State’s failure to adequately inform residents.
No
New Nuclear Power Plants in Green River, Utah – or
anywhere!
Greenaction opposes plans being pushed by Bush, McCain
and the nuclear industry to build more nuclear power plants. Nuclear
power is
still a huge threat to the environment and health, from the
uranium mining to the risk of power plant leaks to the dangers of
nuclear
waste disposal.
Avenal,
California: Campaign Against Importation of Los Angeles’ Trash & Proposed
Power Plant!
We are helping
Spanish-speaking residents in this San Joaquin Valley community
organize against problems at the local
dump including
odors, diesel pollution, and dumping Los Angeles’s garbage.
We have won initial victories including odor control measures
and an agreement to move the dump entrance away from residential
areas
to reduce the impacts of diesel truck traffic and emissions. We
are educating and mobilizing residents about the dangers of a
large fossil fuel power plant proposed in Avenal.
West Oakland, California: Clean up the Superfund Site!
Greenaction
is working with residents living on top of and next to vinyl chloride
and lead contamination, and pressuring US EPA
to finally begin cleaning up the toxic pollution at the AMCO
Chemical Superfund site.
