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Campaign Report, Summer 2010 Taking Action for Health and Environmental Justice Kettleman City, CA: Latino Legislators Join Residents & Greenaction in Challenging County’s Racial Discrimination! EPA Busts Chem Waste for Violations, Big Protest Against Toxic Dump! Greenaction continues our all out support for this 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. US EPA has taken long-overdue action to crack down on violations at the toxic dump for improper disposal of PCBs and problems with the company’s lab. Latino Legislators held a field hearing on June 17th and joined residents in denouncing the racial discrimination used by Kings County in the toxic waste dump permit process. In the face of our legal and campaign challenges, we have continued to block Chem Waste’s attempts to obtain permits to expand their toxic dump. San Francisco, Richmond, and Oakland ,CA: Toxic Triangle Hearings on Environmental Racism and Cumulative Impacts of Pollution! We are helping lead the Toxic Triangle Coalition’s efforts to bring attention to the environmental racism practiced by polluters and government agencies that threatens the health of low-income people of color communities. The second community hearing took place June 12th in Bayview Hunters Point, with community and environmental justice activists challenging government agencies to protect people, not polluters. 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. We are challenging the Environmental Impact Report for the proposed development that will create more pollution and gentrify the low-income community of color. 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 about 20 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. Greenaction is working with residents in a community campaign to end 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 drastically 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 lead sampling, found extensive contamination and agreed to remove the lead soil from nearly 150 homes – 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 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 Campaigns to Reduce the Cumulative Impacts of Pollution! 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. 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, a drinking and an 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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