Taking Action for Health and Environmental
Justice
Bayview
Hunters Point, San Francisco, California - Clean up PG&E
and Reduce Pollution at Pan Glo!
Greenaction
is leading a community effort to ensure the full cleanup of contamination
at the closed PG&E power plant. Good news
in our campaign to reduce pollution from Pan Glo Services: the
company
has agreed to find a safer substitute for the chlorine currently
used in their industrial process.
Richmond, California Environmental Health and Justice
Project launched
Greenaction and the West County Toxics Coalition
have launched a campaign to stop new pollution and reduce existing
pollution in
this community that suffers from refineries, chemical plants,
waste treatment facilities and other dirty industries. One target
will be Myers Container Storage that emits air pollution from
the burning of hazardous waste residues in used barrels. In
June 2007 we will begin the Richmond Environmental Health and Justice
Leadership Institute to train community members in leadership
and community organizing skills.
East
Palo Alto, CA & Gila River Indian Community,
Arizona: Shut Romic’s Hazardous Waste Plants!
Tribal members
and Greenaction are having a protest at the Romic facility at
the Gila River Indian Community on March 24th to encourage
the tribal council to evict this polluter that has many violations
from tribal lands. Greenaction
has united the Native peoples of Gila River and Youth United for
Community Action (from East Palo
Alto) to stop Romic’s
pollution of both communities.
Kettleman City, San Joaquin Valley, California: Stop
Proposed Toxic Waste Dump Expansion!
Greenaction is helping this
farmworker community fight proposed
expansion of the Chem Waste Management hazardous waste landfill,
including more highly toxic PCBs. We are training youth and women
on environmental health issues and leadership skills. We are opening
an office in Kings County this spring.
International
Campaign Supports Tohono O’odham
Indigenous Peoples Fight against Mexican Hazardous Waste Dump Project
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 a huge alliance of environmental justice and Indigenous
groups, and Greenaction 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.
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.
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.
California,
Arizona & around the World: Resisting
the Onslaught of “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 new
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.
No Desert Rock Coal-Fired Power Plant on Navajo Nation
land (New Mexico)! Stop Global Warming!
Greenaction is working with
the Dooda Desert Rock Committee of residents
and the Navajo environmental justice group Dine CARE to defeat
a proposed coal-fired power plant that threatens community health,
traditions, culture and sacred sites and would increase global
warming.
San Francisco, Hayward, and Garden Terrace, 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.
White Mesa Utes, Navajo,
Greenaction & allies
fight against International Uranium Corporation in Utah
We work
with White Mesa Utes, Navajo and other area residents and allies
to fight IUC’s
attempt to accept wastes with very high radioactive content at
their “mill”/dump in southern
Utah next to the White Mesa Ute reservation. Our goal is to close
IUC due to pollution of air, water and soil and desecration of
sacred sites.
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: Campaigns against incineration and pesticide
drift!
Greenaction and the Grayson Neighborhood Council are
continuing our campaigns against the Covanta garbage incinerator
and against
pesticide drift in this low-income Latino area. We are currently
working with residents to encourage county and city officials
to support recycling instead of incineration.
West Oakland, CA: Time to clean up the AMCO Chemical
Superfund Site!
Under pressure
from Greenaction and the Chester Street Block Club
Association, US EPA placed this site contaminated with vinyl chloride
and other chemicals on the federal Superfund site in September
2003. EPA has failed to begin the cleanup, and contaminants have
been
detected in a children’s playground next to the site.
Central California Environmental Justice Network
Greenaction participates in this grassroots network
in the heavily polluted San Joaquin Valley.
