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.
We organized a big March for Environmental Justice that highlighted
these issues. 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.
Victories!
Romic Toxic Waste Plants in East Palo Alto, California & Gila
River Indian Community, Arizona Shut Down!
Greenaction,
the Gila River Alliance for a Clean Environment, Youth United
for Community
Action and allies have won the long fight to
close Romic Environmental Technology’s dangerous hazardous
waste facilities. In the face of protests in both communities, violations
of the law by Romic, and strong opposition from the Gila River Indian
Community, Romic has closed their two controversial plants. We also
pressured a toxic waste company called Clean Harbors to drop plans
to try to buy Romic at Gila River. We are now working to make sure
Romic cleans up toxic contamination at both facilities.
Victory!
Tohono O’odham Indigenous Peoples, Mexican Communities & Greenaction
Stop Toxic Dump!
We are helping
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, Sonora,
Mexico. We brought
together an alliance of environmental justice and Indigenous groups
and worked with tribal members to hold protests in Arizona, California
and Mexico. In a big victory, we have forced the Mexican government
to admit that the project cannot proceed for now due to opposition
of the local municipality.
Richmond,
California: Stop Chevron’s Proposed Refinery Expansion!
Greenaction
helped the West County Toxics Coalition and allies organize
a successful march and rally on November 10th, with 200 people
braving a rainstorm to take action against Chevron’s pollution
and expansion. We have also launched a new campaign targeting
Myers Container Storage that emits air pollution from burning
hazardous waste residues. This summer we began the Richmond Environmental
Health and Justice Leadership Institute to train community members
in community organizing.
Kettleman
City, San Joaquin Valley, California: Stop the 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 helped organize a big rally at the front
gates of the dump on November 18th and have mobilized 125 groups
across
the U.S. to support the campaign by residents and Greenaction
against the proposed expansion.
Greenaction
and Avenal Residents Organize Against Dumping of Los Angeles’ Trash
in Local Dump!
Greenaction
is helping Spanish-speaking residents in this San Joaquin Valley
community organize against problems
at the local dump including
odors and importation of waste from Los Angeles. We joined 100
residents on November 19th telling City officials that the odors,
waste imports
and diesel fumes must stop.
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. 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.
Across
the US and Around the World: Stop Incinerators in Disguise,
Dioxin
and Climate Change
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
which poison our environment and contribute to climate change.
We support pollution prevention, increased recycling and real
renewable
energy instead
of incineration technologies. Our 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.
Red Bluff,
California: Stop the InEnTec Plasma Arc Incinerator in Disguise!
Greenaction
is 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.
No Desert
Rock Coal-Fired Power Plant on Navajo Nation land (New Mexico)!
Stop Global Warming!
Greenaction
is working with Navajo grassroots groups and allies
to defeat a proposed coal-fired power plant
that threatens community health, traditions, culture and sacred
sites and would increase global warming.
San Leandro, California: New Environmental Health and Justice
Project Starts Up and Makes Waves!
Greenaction is working with the community group Healthy San Leandro
Collaborative 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.
Challenging
the Environmental Racism of the US EPA!
On September
10th Greenaction and the West County Toxics Coalition held a successful
protest
at a US EPA conference to expose EPA’s
pro-polluter policies that put corporate profit ahead of community
health and the environment. In a direct action, Greenaction and
community members spoke out at the start of the conference to
tell conference participants the truth about EPA’s violations
of environmental justice.
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 US EPA has allowed the company to operate without proper permits
or full environmental review.
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 currently working with residents to encourage
county and city officials to support recycling instead of incineration.
North
Salt Lake City, Utah: Shut Stericycle Medical Waste Incinerator – Sterilize,
Don’t Burn the Waste!
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
in the air. 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.
