http://gcmonitor.org/ http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=903 <div class="text blurb">Two Bay Area high school students produced a 7 minute video documentary exposing the perils of living near CASS metal recycling facility in West Oakland. </div> http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=903 http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=901 <div class="text blurb">Global Community Monitor is launching a new project in British Columbia. The residents of Prince George, B.C. formed an organization called People's Action Committee for Healthy Air (PACHA). PACHA will work with GCM to fight pollution in a city that "just plain stinks"</div> http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=901 http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=899 <div class="text blurb">A troubled scrap metal/aluminum casting facility in West Oakland, Custom Alloy Scrap Sales (CASS) was sued today for massive violations of water pollution laws by a Bay Area Environmental Justice group, Global Community Monitor (GCM)</div> http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=899 http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=882 <div class="text blurb">For the first time, communities living in South Africa’s air pollution hotspots will be able to test the air for heavy metals and dust particles.</div> http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=882 http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=878 <div class="text blurb">Members of the Global Bucket Brigade Network traveled to the ancestral home of the Obama family</div> http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=878 http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=854 <div class="text blurb">Breech is motivated to "tell the untold story" of the people who suffer in silence in "fenceline" communities such as Addyston, Ohio, where her work help get children out of a toxic school.</div> http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=854 http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=852 <div class="text blurb">The machine and another like it will be situated around the school and other sites in the West Oakland community during the next month to gauge the amount and types of emissions coming from Custom Alloy and Scrap Sales (CASS), which makes aluminum parts from scrap metals.</div> http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=852 http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=847 <div class="text blurb">Ada Lockridge, a member of the Aamjiwnaang environment committee, said she was leaving an environmental meeting on the reserve when she noticed the clouds of smoke. "You can see the yellow crap in the sky," she said. "It's coming right at Aamjiwnaang.</div> http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=847 http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=845 <div class="text blurb">Hopewell’s air has long been known to residents and down-winders as having a characteristic ‘smell’ that is unpleasant, but until recently, no one knew what hazards it might contain.</div> http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=845 http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=837 <div class="text blurb">Proximity to industries — and the exposures to toxic chemicals that often go with it — can portend unique dangers for young children.</div> http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=837 http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=835 <div class="text blurb">The potential problems that emerged were widespread, insidious and largely unaddressed.</div> http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=835 http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=821 <div class="text blurb">"Levels of lead and manganese in air samples were substantially higher during a half-month period when winds carried air pollutant emissions from the Claymont Steel facility into these residential locations."</div> http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=821 http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=802 <div class="text blurb">The rooftops of some homes in Claymont will soon become temporary science labs because of a community air pollution monitoring project starting this weekend.</div> http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=802 http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=781 <div class="text blurb">The bucket brigade is coming to the city, but there’s no fire. Specially-outfitted buckets will collect air quality samples as part of a new study on how Hopewell’s industry affects the air.</div> http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=781 http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=742 <div class="text blurb">The Global Community Monitor (GCM), Students of McCylmond’s High School and the Rose Foundation have been conducting an investigation of pollution in West Oakland. GCM is organizing a Community Monitoring Action Team to conduct more air tests at homes and businesses in the area. We need your help to volunteer to be trained and participate in a variety of monitoring activities. </div> http://gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=742