Taking Action for Health and Environmental
Justice
Red Bluff, California: Victory Stops Proposed Plasma
Arc Incinerator!
The 3 ½ year campaign by Greenaction and
community members has forced InEnTec to cancel their plans for a
plasma arc medical
waste facility that would have been an incinerator in disguise emitting
toxic pollutants into the air. Greenaction forced InEnTec to admit
that the technology was not “pollution-free” as they
had claimed, and we documented serious problems with similar facilities
using this technology.
Los
Angeles, Sacramento, Watsonville, Florida 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
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. Please contact Greenaction
if one
of these incinerators in disguise is proposed near you.
Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco, California:
Stop Diesel Pollution Campaign!
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. Several companies have signed Good Neighbor
Agreements with Greenaction pledging to comply with the law and
educate their
drivers.
Richmond,
California: Stop Chevron’s Proposed
Refinery Expansion!
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. This summer,
Greenaction and the WCTC are conducting 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
are
conducting a community health survey in the area.
San Francisco, California: Stop Fossil Fuel Power
Plants and Global Warming!
Greenaction is helping fight proposed
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.
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.
We are conducting a community health survey to investigate reports
of high rates of asthma and cancer.
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.
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 promptly clean up toxic contamination
at the now-closed Romic facilities in both communities.
No New Nuclear Power Plants!
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.
Tohono
O’odham Indigenous Peoples, Mexican Communities & Greenaction
Stop Toxic Dump!
We helped
O’odham peoples in Mexico and the
U.S. defeat plans to build a giant hazardous waste landfill near
villages and sacred
sites in Quitovac, Sonora, Mexico. We helped bring together a
binational alliance of environmental justice and Indigenous groups.
We are
urging Mexico to consult with communities including Indigenous
peoples about proposed waste disposal sites and to respect sacred
sites
and the environment.
No Desert Rock Coal-Fired Power Plant on Navajo Nation
(New Mexico)! Stop Global Warming!
Greenaction is supporting Navajo
grassroots groups to defeat a proposed
coal-fired power plant that threatens community health, traditions,
culture and sacred sites and would increase global warming.
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.
