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Campaign Report, Spring 2010 Taking Action for Health and Environmental Justice Kettleman City, CA: Number of Birth Defects Increase, Greenaction Holds Agencies Accountable to Conduct Real Investigation as We Fight Toxic Dump and Proposed Avenal Power Plant! Greenaction continues our all out support for this small farmworker community’s epic fight to find the cause of birth defects and infant deaths, and to stop the proposed expansion of the giant Chemical Waste Management toxic waste dump and the proposed Avenal power plant. We documented that there were more recent birth defects than the state had admitted, forcing the state to confirm three new cases in 2009. We battled back against State Department of Toxics Substances Control and the Valley Air District, successfully pressuring them to slow down attempts to approve permits for the toxic dump. Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco, CA: Stop Lennar Corporation’s Pollution Threat to Health! Greenaction and the Stop Lennar Action Movement are pressuring the developer Lennar Corporation and government agencies to stop air pollution violations at the toxic contaminated Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Reduce Diesel Pollution Campaign! We are expanding our education of residents, truck and bus drivers, schools and businesses about the dangers of diesel pollution and vehicle idling, and how it can be reduced. In Bayview Hunters Point, we have secured agreements from over one dozen businesses to educate their truckers about diesel idling and to obey anti-idling laws. We are working with truckers and businesses to let them know about diesel-reduction grant programs. San Francisco Bay Area: Air District Agrees to Strengthen Enforcement of Industry Odor Nuisances Greenaction led an effort
by the Environmental Justice Air Quality
Coalition that has succeeded in getting the Bay Area Air Quality
Management District to strengthen enforcement against odors from
industries. The citizen complaint process will be improved, and
agency inspectors will get additional training and direction. Greenaction is working with residents in a community campaign to end to the noxious odors and toxic pollution from Pacific Steel Casting. We are pressuring the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the City to force PSC to eliminate odors and dramatically reduce pollution. We want healthy air for workers and residents. Visit www.youtube.com and type in Pacific Steel Casting Greenaction to see us in action. Avenal, Hayward, San Francisco, CA and Navajo Nation: Stop Climate Change! Stop Coal & All Fossil Fuel Power Plants! We are helping Avenal and Hayward residents fight proposed fossil fuel power plants. In San Francisco, we are working to achieve the promised closure of the old and dirty Mirant plant and replace it with renewable energy and conservation. We continue to support the Navajo peoples’ fight to stop the proposed Desert Rock Coal Fired Power Plant that would be located on the reservation in New Mexico. West Oakland, CA: Clean up the AMCO Chemical Superfund Site and Huge Lead Contamination! We are working with residents living on top of and next to vinyl chloride and lead contamination, and pressuring US EPA to begin cleaning up the AMCO Chemical Superfund site. Due to Greenaction’s advocacy, the US EPA conducted extensive lead sampling, found extensive contamination and agreed to remove the lead soil from nearly 150homes – this will be the largest lead cleanup ever in the western U.S. Hawaii, Salinas Valley, New Orleans, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Los Angeles, New York, Indigenous Lands: Stop Incinerators in Disguise! Support Zero Waste and Renewable Energy! We are helping lead a worldwide campaign to defeat industry attempts to site gasification, pyrolysis and plasma arc incinerators for treatment of solid waste, medical and hazardous wastes and tires. While companies claim these technologies are “recycling” and “renewable energy,” in reality they heat wastes and then burn the gases and emit toxic emissions. We support Zero Waste programs - including increased recycling and composting, and real renewable energy instead of incineration. Reports and case studies are on our website. Midway Village, Daly City: Relocate Residents Away from PG&E Toxic Waste! Greenaction and residents are increasing pressure on government agencies and PG&E to relocate residents living on top of PG&E’s toxic waste at this public housing project. Cancer-causing chemicals threaten public health and the watershed of San Francisco Bay, and cannot be cleaned up while residents live there. Bay Area and San Joaquin Valley Cumulative Impacts Campaign Greenaction is helping lead campaigns across California that bring together community, health, environmental and environmental justice groups in an effort to get regional air districts and other agencies to adopt rules and regulations to reduce the cumulative impacts of multiple pollution sources on overburdened communities. Stanislaus County, California: Shut the Covanta Incinerator and Start Serious Recyling Programs! Greenaction and the Grayson Neighborhood Council are stepping up efforts to shut the Covanta garbage incinerator and to encourage cities and the county to institute serious recycling and composing programs. We are demanding that the City of Modesto increase, not cut back, its recycling program. North Salt Lake City, Utah: Shut the Stericycle Medical Waste Incinerators! Greenaction is helping residents of North Salt Lake City, Utah and other communities around the country in a national effort to stop the burning of medical waste by Stericycle. 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. No New Nuclear Power Plants in Green River, Utah or Fresno County, California – or Anywhere! Nuclear power remains a huge threat to the environment and health, from the uranium mining to the risk of leaks to the dangers of nuclear waste disposal. A nuclear power plant near the Green River would be disastrous as that river flows directly into the Colorado River, drinking and agricultural water source for tens of millions of people. A nuclear plant proposed near Fresno would add to existing huge pollution problems. Greenaction Email Activist Network: Support Greenaction's Campaigns for Health & Environmental Justice! Please Support Greenaction's Ten Year Fundraising Drive Please donate online at www.greenaction.org Donations are
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