Taking Action for Health and Environmental
Justice
No Desert Rock Coal-Fired Power Plant on Navajo Reservation
(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.
Bayview Hunters Point,
San Francisco, CA: Clean up PG&E site,
and Reduce Pollution at Pan Glo!
Greenaction
is leading a community effort to ensure the safe dismantling of
the now-closed PG&E
power plant and the safe and full cleanup of contamination at the
site. We also met with Pan Glo Services,
a major polluter in Southeast San Francisco, and they have agreed
to work to reduce pollution from their operations.
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 October. In a big victory,
we have forced the Mexican government to retract their claims
that the project had received full approval.
North
Salt Lake City, Utah: Shut Stericycle Medical Waste Incinerator – Sterilize,
Don’t Burn the Waste!
Greenaction is working with families
living next to the Stericycle incinerator and with parents whose
kids go to schools recently built
nearby. Stericycle burns medical waste shipped there from many
states, emitting dioxin and other pollutants into the air. We want
Stericycle
to switch to safer non-incineration technologies that will 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.
Greenaction
is now in court 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.
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 and
we organized a big march of hundreds of residents on November
11th. We are pressuring the Bay Area Air Quality Management
District to do their job and force PSC to eliminate the odors and
dramatically
reduce pollution. We want healthy air for the workers and the
community.
Shut
Romic’s Hazardous Waste Plants in East
Palo Alto, CA & Gila
River Indian Community, Arizona!
Greenaction,
tribal members and Chandler, Arizona residents packed two public
meetings held by
the US EPA in December, demanding the
closure of this polluter. Greenaction and tribal members toured
the Romic facility at Gila River and documented violations in
the storage of hazardous waste and have called for EPA to penalize
the
company. 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. As a result of
increased pressure, and Romic has recently received large fines
in both communities.
Kettleman
City, San Joaquin Valley, California: Stop Proposed Toxic Waste
Dump Expansion!
Greenaction
is helping this farmworker community fight expansion of the nearby
Chem Waste Management hazardous
waste landfill,
as well as fighting plans for proposed sewage sludge dumping
near the
town. We are training youth and women on environmental health
issues and leadership skills. Greenaction will also be opening
an office
in Kings County early in 2007!
Richmond, California Environmental Health and Justice
Project launched
Greenaction and the West County Toxics Coalition
have launched a major 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. In March
2007 we will begin the Richmond Environmental Health and Justice
Leadership Institute to train community members in leadership
and community organizing skills.
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.
Defending the Sacred Ward Valley Film Project
Greenaction
and the Mohave Cultural Preservation Program have launched a project
to distribute the new film “Defending the Sacred.” The
film tells of the successful fight by the five tribes of the
Colorado River Native Nations Alliance, Greenaction and a big
coalition
that saved Ward Valley, the Colorado River and sacred Indian
lands from the proposed nuclear waste dump. Please donate $20
to Greenaction
for the video or DVD.
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.
Central California Environmental Justice Network
Greenaction
is a leader of this grassroots network in the heavily polluted
San Joaquin Valley.
Invisible 5 Audio Tour Project
Greenaction, POND
and artists joined together to produce a two-CD set that is a
self-guided audio tour of Interstate-5 in California
between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Invisible-5 traces the
invisible toxic landscape along the interstate through stories
of people and communities fighting for environmental justice,
set against natural, social and economic histories. The project
combines voices of residents, community organizers, farmers,
historians, geographers, and advocates, with field recordings, sound,
music,
and archival audio.
