Taking Action for Health and Environmental
Justice
Bayview
Hunters Point, San Francisco, California: Clean up PG&E and
Hunters Point Shipyard! Greenaction Launches New Stop Diesel Pollution
Campaign!
We are playing
a leading role with our community allies to demand and achieve
the safe and thorough
cleanup of toxic contamination
at the closed PG&E power plant and at the Naval Shipyard site.
Greenaction has also begun a major campaign to reduce diesel pollution
in Bayview Hunters Point due to diesel’s link to asthma,
cancer and climate change.
Ward
Valley, California: Native Nations & Allies
Celebrate Victory Anniversary
Greenaction and allies joined tribal
leaders, elders and other members
of the Fort Mojave, Chemehuevi, Quechan and Colorado River Indian
Tribes on March 22nd at Ward Valley in the Mojave Desert to celebrate
the 10th anniversary of the historic protest and occupation that
stopped the proposed radioactive waste dump. The 113-day occupation
of Ward Valley began on February 12, 1998 and stopped plans by
the nuclear industry and government to build a radioactive waste
dump
on sacred Indian lands near the Colorado River.
Green River, Utah: No New Nuclear Power Plants!
Greenaction
is working with our allies in Utah and downriver in Nevada, Arizona
and California to stop plans to build two nuclear
power plants in Green River, Utah. Leaks, spills or an accident
at a nuclear plant here would be a catastrophe. The Green River
feeds directly into the Colorado River, drinking and agricultural
water for over 25 million people. We will mobilize cities, towns
and Native Nations all along the Colorado River and in Utah
to oppose this reckless plan.
Richmond,
California: Stop Chevron’s Proposed
Refinery Expansion!
Greenaction
joined the West County Toxics Coalition and allies in organizing
a big rally, march and direct action
at the Chevron
refinery on March 15th. Over 500 people protested Chevron’s
pollution, importation of Iraqi oil, and proposed expansion
of the refinery. In June, Greenaction and the WCTC will kick
off
the second year of the Richmond Environmental Health and Justice
Leadership Academy to train residents in community organizing
and leadership skills.
Gila
River Indian Community, Arizona & East Palo
Alto, California: Romic Toxic Cleanup
Greenaction, the Gila River
Alliance for a Clean Environment and
Youth United for Community Action are working together to pressure
Romic and government agencies to thoroughly and promptly clean
up toxic contamination at the now-closed Romic facilities in both
communities.
The huge victories that forced Romic to close both plants in August
represent a great opportunity for both communities to have clean
economic development instead of toxic polluters.
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
are
conducting a community health survey in the area.
California, Florida, New Jersey, Asia and around the
World: Stop Incinerators in Disguise!
Greenaction
is expanding 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
that poison our environment and contribute to climate change.
We support pollution prevention, increased recycling and real
renewable
energy instead of incineration technologies. Reports and case
studies are available on our website.
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 are conducting a community health survey
in response to residents’ concerns about high rates of asthma
and cancer.
Avenal,
California: Campaign Against Importation of Los Angeles’ Trash
in Local Dump!
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.
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’ve helped
research many of these industries and with the community will
now challenge
the biggest polluters to reduce their pollution.
West Oakland, California
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.
Tohono
O’odham Indigenous Peoples, Mexican Communities & Greenaction
Stop Toxic Dump!
We helped
O’odham peoples in Mexico and the
U.S. oppose plans to build a giant hazardous waste landfill near
villages and sacred
sites in Quitovac, Sonora, Mexico. We brought together a binational
alliance of environmental justice and Indigenous groups. In a
big victory, we have stopped the dump project from proceeding,
and are
campaigning for official cancellation of the project.
No Desert Rock Coal-Fired Power Plant on Navajo Nation
(New Mexico)! Stop Global Warming!
Greenaction is working with Navajo
grassroots groups and allies
to defeat a proposed coal-fired that threatens community health,
traditions, culture and sacred sites and would increase global warming.
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 working with residents to encourage
county
and city officials to support recycling and “zero waste” programs
instead of incineration.
North
Salt Lake City, Utah: Shut Stericycle Medical Waste Incinerator – Sterilize,
Don’t Incinerate!
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.
Stericycle must switch to safer non-incineration technologies
to protect the health of residents and workers.
San Francisco, California: Stop Fossil Fuel Power
Plants and Global Warming!
Greenaction is helping communities fight
proposals for new gas fired
fossil fuel power plants and to demand the closure of the dirty
Mirant power plant. We support energy conservation and clean,
green, renewable energy, not more polluting power plants.
