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Urgent Action Alert! Here's What You Can Do! 1. Call Ellen Garvey, Air Pollution Control Officer of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and ask her to deny the Title V Clean Air Act permit for IES.
2. Send donations to Greenaction to help us stop incineration in Oakland and Stanislaus County. Donations can be sent to us at 915 Cole Street 3. Get involved! If you live in the Bay Area, please call us to volunteer! or email us at greenaction@greenaction.org See Also: 11/1 Breaking News! In Response to Protest by Students, Greenaction and Allies, Stanford Medical Center to Move Away From Incineration of Medical Waste at IES Incinerators in Oakland, CA -- Victory for Health and Environmental Justice New Action Alert! Stop the IES Incinerators Now! Tell the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to Deny the Title V Clean Air Act Permit for the Incinerators! For more information, contact:
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Turn Up the Heat to Shut the IES
Incinerators in Oakland Tell the Bay Area Air District to Deny New Permits to the Incinerators! Act Now!! Now is the time to win the long battle to stop the IES incinerators! Tell IES to replace the incinerators with safer, non-incineration technologies to save jobs and protect community health and our environment! Stop incineration in Oakland AND Stanislaus County! Very soon the Bay Area Air Quality Management District will decide whether to approve or deny a Title V Clean Air Act permit for the Integrated Environmental Systems (IES) medical waste and solid waste incinerators. IES has burned medical waste and solid waste in East Oakland, California for over 14 years. These polluting incinerators emit highly toxic pollutants including dioxin and mercury into the air of the nearby low-income community of color and into surrounding areas. Government agencies led by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) have allowed IES to continue operating despite the highly toxic emissions and despite IES' continuing permit violations, excess emissions, broken monitors and other operating problems. In response to the tremendous pressure on IES and government agencies, we have learned that IES is considering shutting their incinerators in East Oakland and moving the operation to an existing garbage incineration facility operated by Ogden Martin Systems at Crows Landing, near Modesto in Stanislaus County. That incinerator is owned by the City of Modesto and Stanislaus County, and they are about to begin a permit process to allow them to burn medical waste as well as garbage. The incinerator is located in a rural area, and local residents include Latino farmworkers and Anglo ranchers and farmers. Greenaction has been invited by local residents to help them stop the plan to burn medical waste in Stanislaus County, and we have now joined them in an all-out organizing campaign. |