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Greenaction
Winter 2008-2009 Campaign Report
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Upcoming
Events
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1/24/09 Join
Us for Two Big Events Saturday, January 24th!
Reception
with Greenaction Board of Directors and celebrate Executive
Director Bradley Angel Receiving Lannan Foundation
Cultural Freedom Award
Celebrate
Youth in the Environmental Justice Movement, "Youth
on Fire" Film
Premiere and Youth Performers |
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Alerts!
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11/18/08 Breaking
News: Victory! Greenaction & Pajaro Valley Coalition
for Environmental Justice Defeat Plasma Arc Incinerator proposed
in Watsonville, CA – read press
release, county
letter and news coverage in Santa
Cruz Sentinel and Watsonville
Register-Pajaronian. |
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8/26/08 Greenaction
Releases “Toxic
Scandal, Toxic Threat” Report
on Sacramento’s Proposed Plasma Arc project |
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6/16/08 Breaking
News: Victory! Red Bluff Residents & Greenaction Defeat
InEnTec’s Proposed Plasma Arc Incinerator in Disguise! Read victory
press release! Read background
information and see news
coverage. |
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California
Environmental Justice Coalition Opposes Carbon Trading as Phony
Climate Change Solution. Read
more at www.ejmatters.org. |
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New
report on Environmental Racism and Cumulative Impacts of Pollution:
Still Toxic After All These Years: Air Quality and Environmental
Justice in the San Francisco Bay Area. Read the report (3.3MB)
and Press
Release, plus opinion
piece, newspaper
coverage and Fact
Sheet! |
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Invisible
5 audio tour of environmental justice issues along Interstate
5 between San Francisco and Los Angeles, including stories
of people and communities fighting for environmental justice. |
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Stop
Bush’s War for Oil in Iraq! Bring the
Troops Home Now! Act now!
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Environmental Justice for Bayview Hunters Point, San
Francisco!
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Campaign for Safe Cleanup at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard |
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Reduce
Diesel Pollution Campaign - Fact sheets and newsletters |
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7/13/08 Shut
the Mirant Power Plant, no new Combustion Turbines! Support
Clean, Renewable Energy and Conservation! Read the Fact
Sheet/Action Alert. |
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8/25/07 200
March in Bayview Hunters Point for Environmental Justice!
See KCBS web and radio
coverage. Read
the flyer!
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Read Greenaction
report: Pollution,
Health, Environmental Racism and Injustice: Toxics
Inventory of Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco |
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Stop Incinerators in Disguise!
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11/18/08 Breaking
News: Victory! Greenaction & Pajaro Valley Coalition
for Environmental Justice Defeat Plasma Arc Incinerator proposed
in Watsonville, CA – read press
release, county
letter and news coverage in Santa
Cruz Sentinel and Watsonville
Register-Pajaronian. |
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8/26/08 Greenaction
Releases “Toxic
Scandal, Toxic Threat” Report on Sacramento’s
Proposed Plasma Arc project |
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6/16/08 Breaking
News: Victory! Red Bluff Residents & Greenaction Defeat
InEnTec’s Proposed Plasma Arc Incinerator in Disguise! Read victory
press release! Read background
information and see news
coverage. |
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6/9/08 Greenaction
Warns Watsonville & Santa
Cruz, CA residents of plasma arc incinerator proposal. Read the
Fact Sheet
in English and Espanol, and see the Santa
Cruz Sentinel story. |
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3/10/08 Greenaction
Report Exposes Florida Plasma Arc Incinerator In Disguise
Proposals |
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Greenaction
International Campaigns in Asia against Incinerators in Disguise. Read
about campaign in Japan, Malaysia and Philippines. Greenaction
and Malaysian Groups Fight Melaka Waste-to-Energy Incinerator
Proposal, read
news story. |
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10/21/08
New Presentation - Greenaction
Expose of Incinerators in Disguise – Gasification,
Pyrolysis and Plasma Arc (8MB) |
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Read
new report by Greenaction and Global Alliance for Incinerator
Alternatives: “Incinerators
in Disguise, Case Studies of Gasification, Pyrolysis and Plasma
Arc in Europe, Asia and the United States." (En
Espanol) |
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2/27/08 Greenaction
Exposes Sacramento’s Plan for Plasma
Arc Incinerator in Disguise – read
more in Sacramento Bee. |
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7/27/06 Read fact sheets on Incineration: Waste
of Energy, Thermoselect
Reality Check, Incinerators in Disguise (English, Spanish) |
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Defending the Sacred Ward Valley Film Project
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Greenaction
and the Mohave Cultural Preservation Program Announce the
Defending the Sacred Ward Valley Film Project--Read about
the project! |
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Stop Pacific Steel Casting's Pollution
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Fact
sheet and Action Alert!
Stop Pacific Steel’s
Pollution! Save Jobs, Protect Community and Worker Health! |
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2/07/08 Community
Air Monitoring Tests Prove High Levels of Toxic Metals Linked
to Pacific Steel - See
the results!
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Pollution Prevention, Not Incineration!
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10/21/08 Greenaction & North
Salt Lake City, Utah residents campaign to shut Stericycle
waste incinerator. Read Greenaction Comments
Opposing Stericycle Incinerator Permit. Read new press
coverage.
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Greenaction & North
Salt Lake City, Utah residents campaign to shut Stericycle
waste incinerator. Read News Coverage of Big
Public Meeting and concern
about schools and homes next to incinerator, plus Division
of Air Quality investigation. Read Read Excellent
story “A Hazardous Neighbor” in Desert News, Fact
Sheet and background, press
release and Health Care Without
Harm information. Read Salt
Lake City Weekly Story. |
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Indigenous
Lands Environmental Health, Justice
and Sovereignty Project
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Historic
Victories! Communities & Greenaction Force Toxic Polluter
Romic To Shut Down Hazardous Waste Plants on Gila River Indian
Community, Arizona and East Palo Alto, CA! Read State
of California announcement, plus Greenaction
statement, press coverage and background. |
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Support
O’odham Indigenous Peoples Fight Against Proposed Toxic
Dump in Sonora, Mexico. Read Declaration
from Traditional O’odham Leaders & Action
Alert |
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Stop
the Proposed Desert Rock Power Plant, Navajo Nation! |
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Greenaction
joins Navajo community in fight against proposed Desert Rock
power plant. Read
the facts.
12/20/06 Breaking
news: Navajo Elders blockade power plant site! Read
more and see photos, and see the Campaign
Blog! |
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Help
the Tohono O’odham Indigenous Peoples of Sonora, Mexico
and Arizona! |
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Stop
Proposed Hazardous Waste Dump Near Quitovac! Tell the Mexican
government to reject the dump plan. Read action
alert,
O’odham statement in English and Spanish,
newspaper coverage (Arizona
Republic, Arizona
Daily Star, Indian
Country Today, UN
Observer and International Report
and Tuscon Citizen 10/13/06
and 11/27/06).
Read letter
from environmental justice and Indigenous groups to Mexican government. Read letter
from Greenaction and O’odham Tribal Members to US EPA. |
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Shut Down Siemens Toxic Waste Plant at Colorado River Indian
Tribes |
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Tribal Members & Greenaction Oppose
Siemens hazardous waste facility at Colorado
River Indian Tribes (CRIT) reservation! Read press
coverage. |
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Stop
Dumping Radioactive and Toxic Waste on Sacred Ute Sites at
White Mesa, Utah |
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Tell
IUC and Department of Energy to Stop Dumping Radioactive
and Toxic Wastes on Sacred Indian Land at White Mesa, Utah!
Read the background, fact sheet, news stories and how you
can help! Read the civil rights complaint filed by White Mesa Concerned
Community.
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Read High Country News Article on White Mesa
issue, Salt Lake City Tribune Story and Editorial,
Salt Lake City Weekly story: "Devil's Dirt",
and about Greenaction,
White Mesa Ute press conference.
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Save
the Medicine Lake Highlands and Sacred Indian Lands from
Calpine’s Proposed Power Plants! |
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Save
the Medicine Lake Highlands and Sacred Indian Lands from Calpine's
Proposed Power Plants! Read action
alert and background, press release and media coverage, photos!
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Support
Gwich’in Nation in Alaska and Canada! No Oil Drilling
in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! |
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Take
Action Today! Tell Bush, U.S. Senate and House of Represenatives
to Protect Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from Oil Drilling. Read
more…. |
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San
Joaquin Valley
Environmental Health & Justice Project
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6/19/08 Greenaction
and Kettleman City residents fight proposed expansion of toxic
dump – read
the news coverage! Read new
action alert! |
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Read
comments
submitted to Kings County Planning Agency by Greenaction,
El Pueblo Para El Aire y Agua Limpio, Lucha Por Salud Justicia
Ambiental, Kids Protecting our Planet and Center on Race, Poverty
and the Environment. |
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Greenaction
and Community Groups Kick-Off Kings County Environmental Justice
Campaign and Opens New Office in San Joaquin Valley! Read newspaper
story, fact
sheet and press
release. |
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3/27/07 Kettleman
City residents, Greenaction and supporters Denounce US EPA Environmental
Racism & PCB dumping
permits. See letter
from environmental justice groups across the country to US EPA.
See press coverage: Hanford
Sentinel 3/28, Fresno
Bee 3/12, and Hanford
Sentinel Op Ed piece. |
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128
Groups from US and worldwide denounce US EPA’s environmental
racism towards residents of Kettleman City, California living
near giant toxic dump. Read the letter
signed by 128 groups and press
release. Read technical
comments from Greenaction & El Pueblo to US EPA. |
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Kettleman
City, CA residents and Greenaction fight proposed expansion
of Chem Waste Management toxic waste dump. Read fact
sheet and earlier news
story. Kettleman City Residents Reject
Cash for Trash! Read
front page story in Hanford Sentinel.
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Shut
the Covanta Incinerator in Stanislaus County! Read
more... |
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Learn
all about toxic sites
in Stanislaus County!
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Article
on Environmental Justice organizing in the San Joaquin Valley by
Hispanic Radio Network: Stopping
fires before they start / Parando
fuegos antes de que
empiecen
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Chowchilla
residents and Greenaction defeat North American Power Company's
medical waste "pyrolysis" plant! Read
the newspaper articles, fact sheets. |
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11/17/01 Central
California Environmental Justice
Network Formed! Read about the founding
conference and
the Fresno
Bee story. |
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6/20/03
Greenaction
and community groups host Youth Forum in San Joaquin Valley. Read Modesto
Bee story |
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Youth Speak Out at Environmental Justice Network conference! Read
the great Fresno Bee
coverage and the read
Greenaction Youth Organizer Natalia Bernal's report on
the youth organizing.
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Stanislaus
County residents & Greenaction Step Up Fight Against Dump
Plans!
Read the the Press Release,
Modesto Bee Editorial
and news coverage from Tuesday,
7/9/02 and Wednesday,
7/10/02! Read the Action
Alert! |
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West Oakland Fights for
Health and Environmental Justice!
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March 2004 AMCO
Chemcial Vinyl Chloride site placed on Superfund list -
Greenaction and community demand safe, full and prompt
cleanup. |
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Support
the Precautionary Principle!
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Read
New
Fact Sheet and background
on Precautionary Principle: Preventing Harm Before It Happens |
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6/18/03
San Francisco Passes
Historic
Precautionary Principle Ordinance!
Read SF Chronicle
Editorial |
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Stop
Cancer Where It Starts!
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Stop Cancer Where it Starts: Read
background, facts about the Cancer Industry and why we need
to prevent cancer. |
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Keep
Up the Fight Against
the
Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump Time Bomb!
Read the fact sheet
and background,
as well as the coalition
letter summarizing
key concerns about the nuclear
waste dump plan!
Find
out how close you live to a nuclear waste transport route at www.mapscience.org
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Stop
Diesel Buses!
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Read
about the San
Francisco Diesel Bus
Campaign and the Diesel Fact
Sheet! And read the Biodiesel
Fact Sheet! |
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3/31/03
Greenaction
and Stop Diesel Coalition Press Conference Calls for Dumping Old Diesel
Buses |
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Zero
Dioxin and Persistent Bioaccumulative
Toxics (PBTS)
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2/1/02 Alameda County, California Board of
Supervisors passes resolution on
Persistent,
Bioaccumulative Toxins and Effects on Health and Environment! |
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People's
Dioxin Action Summit a Big
Success! 350 Activists
Attend Summit from 25
countries and across the U.S.
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Read the Zero
Dioxin and Anti-PVC resolutions passed by San Francisco Board
of Supervisors
and the Oakland City
Council
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Check out the
Dioxin
Fact Sheet
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Dioxin:
Información en
Español
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SuperFund
and Toxic Cleanup Sites
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Read about Zero Dioxin
Victories at
Arizona and California Superfund Sites on the Zero Dioxin Campaign Home
Page!
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Greenaction and Chester
Street Block Club
Association Win Better Cleanup of Toxics In West Oakland!
Read the Press
Coverage!
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More
Campaign News
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6/15/06 Read News
story update on Midway Village, Daly City. Residents
continue to live on top
of PG&E’s toxic waste.
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Environmental
Justice Air Quality Coalition gives toxic tour for government agencies.
Read about the Environmental
Justice Air
Quality Coalition and the
Oakland Tribune story: Oakland
Toxic
Avengers |
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4/16/03
Greenaction
criticizes EPA fine for 192 toxic pollution violations as too lenient. Read Oakland
Tribune story |
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1/8/02
New Study Links Air
Pollution to Birth
Defects |
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12/3/01
Government Agency Protects
Polluters, Not People or Environment Read Expose
in S.F. Bay
Guardian |
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2/11/01 Conference
Demands
Environmental Justice, Schools and Social Services for Poor
Communities, not Prisons and Toxic Dumps. Read the Fresno Bee story!
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Read
the Mission
Statement of the new Healthy Building Network!
Support Green
Buildings for a Healthy Community. Read
about the Healthy
Buildings Conference!
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Midway
Village
Continues Fight Against PG&E's Toxic Racism! Stop the Toxic Coverup at
Midway Village!
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New Online
Pesticide
Database! User-Friendly Pesticide Information Now Available Online;
New Internet
site allows public, experts easy access to valuable information
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