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DRAFT CLAYMONT REPORT

GCM launches new AIR HUGGER blog

Body Burden Study - Updates

Body Burden Study - The Process

Body Burden Study - Background

Body Burden Study

OAKLAND, CA: Student-produced documentary features West Oakland community

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.: 'Bucket Brigade' tests air in Prince George

OAKLAND, CA: Scrap Metal Plant Sued for Illegal SF Bay Pollution

SOUTH AFRICA: Communities Launch Particulate Matter Testing Program Targeting Mines and Metals Facilities

KENYA: Bucket Brigade Meets Obama's Grandma, National Training for Environmental Justice Communities Underway

Healthy Schools Hero Award 2009 - Ruth Breech, Global Community Monitor!

Young environmentalists tackle West Oakland pollution: Neighbors will start air monitoring project

Aamjiwnaang First Nation: Imperial Oil darkens sky - second accident this week!

“Hopewell Smell” Harmful to Human Health - Southern Virginia Community Air Testing Program Finds Results Alarming

Young students often most vulnerable to toxic air:"That's why monitoring is so important," says Ruth Breech, program director for Global Community Monitor

Australia Bucket Brigade

Group Battling ALCOA sponsors National Bucket Brigade Training for Australia

Residents will do air testing the US way (ALCOA)

Residents resort to own air testing

Shell refinery cops a bucketing

Brigada de Baldes- Mexico

FIRST AIR TEST FOR TOXIC CONTAMINATION IN MEXICO SHOWS DANGEROUS CHEMICALS IN EVERY BREATHE TAKEN BY PEMEX NEIGHBORS

Testing their own air

Pemex Suspends Release of Gases

Experts from the United States Monitor Contamination

Air tests obtained in zones with contaminating industries

Epidemiological Study Begins

Florida Bucket Brigade

Residents of County of top twenty most toxic to test there air - Bucket Brigade Strikes Again!

Tests Prove Threatening Chemicals in Particulate Pollution in Community

Volunteers monitor industrial plant emissions

More Bucket Brigade News

FIRST AIR TEST FOR TOXIC CONTAMINATION IN MEXICO SHOWS DANGEROUS CHEMICALS IN EVERY BREATHE TAKEN BY PEMEX NEIGHBORS

Soot sleuths: Volunteers monitor industrial plant emissions

Valero Refinery Busted by Real Time Monitor

Sunoco settles pollution suit

Air-Pollution Samplers Given $3,200 Grant

Lessening the Scares in the Air Contra Costans begin noting chemical discharges

MEXICO'S GIANT POLLUTER: Will Privitization Force Pemex to Clean Up Its Act?

Quality Control

Studies and Reports

COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL POLICING: Assessing New Strategies of Public Participation in Environmental Regulation

Quality Control

Oceans and Communities Project

Opposition Grows to Deep Sea Mining Venture in Papua New Guinea

Join the Campaign for Justice from the CITGO corporation: Convicted Polluters!

Ireland: Shell to Sea

SHELL DISPUTE- IRELAND: Ministers hear depth of Corrib resistance first hand

Why an public pressure campaign about Shell?

Ireland and Shell: Transcript of Public Hearing on Police Actions at Refinery site: Pattern of Abuse Emerges from Evidence

Philippine Supreme Court Decision May Force Shell and Chevron to Close Oil Depot

THE IRISH TIMES - FEBRUARY 26, 2007 Rights group to study Corrib gas dispute

New report about damage to the environment and communities caused by Shell - Royal Dutch Shell: Use your profits to clean up your mess!

Shell, DEQ settle emission charges

Philippine Supreme Court Decision May Force Shell and Chevron to Close Oil Depot

SC orders oil firms to leave Pandacan

SC orders removal of Manila oil depot

Petron: Relocating Pandacan depot may take 7 yrs

Huge environmental victory for residents of Pandacan, Manila!

Shell safety record in North Sea takes a hammering

Peaceful protest marred by breach

Russian watchdog to complete eco-damage assessment on Sakhalin II - 1

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13. Raise the Drilling Rigs

12. Sensitive Places

10. China & Tibet

9. Gas, Gas, Gas

Shell chairman to view problems at Sapref, says activist

Activists take one share to Shell AGM

SHELL NEIGHBORS BRIEF BRITISH PARLIMENT ON ATROCITIES

BEHIND THE SHINE - THE REAL IMPACTS OF SHELL'S WORK AROUND THE WORLD

Shell Accused of Toxic Waste Racism

Goldman_letter_to_shell.pdf

Refinery Reform Campaign

India Community Environmental Monitoring

Real Time Air Monitor Targets India’s Toxic Pollution Crisis: Community Monitor Team Patrols Tamil Nadu Toxic Hotspots

History of the Bucket Brigade

Frequently Asked Questions

Learn about the Bucket Brigade

History of the Bucket Brigade

Community Monitoring Tool Kit

Growing and Supporting the Grassroots

Short Term Technical Assistance

Media and Resources

Most recent press releases

Corpus Christi, Texas: Citizen Samples Confirm Community Contaminated by CITGO Upset Groups Call for Federal Investigation into Spill Response and Neighborhood Clean up

Global Fenceline Communities Demand that Shell CEO Deliver on His Promises Campaign to Right Shell's Wrongs to Continues

Meet other communities

Bring a Bucket Brigade to my community

How to get started

Frequently Asked Questions

Support the work of Bucket Brigades around the world

Meet the Communities

Learn about the Bucket Brigade

New Global Report Documents Grassroots Action to Monitor Toxic Pollution: Industrial Communities Unite to Demand Clean Air on Earth Day

World Bucket Brigade Report: Telling Toxic Truth Worldwide

KENYA: GCM returns for a follow up regional training

KENYA: Bucket Brigade Meets Obama's Grandma, National Training for Environmental Justice Communities Underway

Kenya: Pan Paper plans to expand its polluting operations

KENYA: Independent Tests Confirm Pan Paper Neighbors in Webuye Breathing Dangerously Toxic Air and Suffering from Nzoia River Pollution

Winning Clean Air for Kenya: Bucket Brigades for Environmental Justice!

Tales of the Toxic Tourists Western Kenya

Field Report: Pan African Paper – Webuye, Kenya

Shell told to pay Nigeria $1.5bn

Nigeria: campaigners won't let Saro-Wiwa die

Shell warns of explosion as Nigerian villagers scoop oil from spill

ERA Field Report #113: One Month After, Shell's Spill Remains Uncleared

SOUTH AFRICA: Communities Launch Particulate Matter Testing Program Targeting Mines and Metals Facilities

Durban, South Africa: Oil Depot Inferno

South Africa National Bucket Brigade Training

Use profits to clean up your mess, Shell told

Shell chairman to view problems at Sapref, says activist

Activists take one share to Shell AGM

Desmond D'Sa Honored by Sunday Times Profile in South Africa

Police Accused of Harassing Community Activist Over Pollution Protest

Greenpeace activists storm refinery

Five Hundred Picket Shell/BP refinery

Tales of Toxics Tourists SOUTHERN AFRICA: Zambia

Field report: Glencore Copper Mine and Smelter, Mufulira, Copperbelt Province, Zambia:

Follow the Bucket Brigade to Thailand Pollution Hotspot Thai Communities Embrace Environmental Monitoring Program

NGO raises cancer fears around Pandacan oil depot

The first ever bucket brigade in the Philippines and Asia has begun!

International Bucket Brigade Conference in New Delhi, India: Delegates Gather from Around the Globe to Exchange Success and Challenges

Katrina News Stories

Learn about the toxics crisis in India

Meet the affected communities

Read the latest India campaign updates

INDIA: Community monitoring building body of evidence of pollution

INDIA: Environmental monitors raise concerns over threat of planned industrial facilities to marine life

INDIA: National ban on industrial expansion for country's most polluted regions

INDIA: Chemical Park increases cancer risk in Cuddalore - Study Confirms Bucket Brigade results!

INDIA: Bhopal's survivors set off on an arduous 800km walk to Delhi to assert their basic, fundamental rights to justice and a life of dignity and health.

International Bucket Brigade Conference in New Delhi, India: Delegates Gather from Around the Globe to Exchange Success and Challenges

Tales of the Toxic Tourists: Breathing Poison for a reason!

Chennai's Poison Air: Real Time Monitor Tells Toxic Truth!

INDIA: Gas leak again; case registered against refinery - Agency Claims Toxic Gases are "safe"

Tamil Nadu - Cuddalore: Power project will displace 3,000 families, says CPI leader

Take action for clean air and healthy communities in India

ISRAEL: Report Draws Link Between Air Pollution and Children's Health and Calls for More Protection Measures Including Monitor

ISRAEL: Kesem Launches "Bucket Brigades"

Two People Were Killed in Western Kazakhstan Oblast as the Result of Poisoning by an Unknown Substance

Kazakhstan Bucket Brigade Overview

Berezovka Bucket Brigade in Action

UPDATE: Renowned Environmentalist Still Imprisoned in Turkmenistan

Rights groups urge Turkmenistan to free activist

Well-known Environmentalist-Activist Andrey Zatoka Arrested in Turkmenistan

KPO LISTENS AND CORRUPTS THE AIR

They've Recorded It! It's Proven!

Data on Toxin (pdf download)

First Independent Air Monitoring from Berezovka: The Results are In!

PAPA NEW GUINEA

PHILIPPINES: Activists Challenge Chevron Track Record in Pandacan

SC orders oil firms to leave Pandacan

SC orders removal of Manila oil depot

Petron: Relocating Pandacan depot may take 7 yrs

Huge environmental victory for residents of Pandacan, Manila!

SHUT DOWN SHELL OIL DEPOT, PHILIPPINES SUPREME COURT ORDERS

The first ever bucket brigade in the Philippines and Asia has begun!

BROKEN PROMISE IN MANILA: The dying and the fearful ask

THAILAND: Opportunity for strict environmental regulation at risk

Learn about the toxics crisis in Thailand

Meet the affected communities

Bang Saphan, Prachuab Kirikhan Province

Map Ta Phut, Rayong Province

Mae Mah, Lampang Province

Read the latest Thailand campaign updates

THAILAND: Under activist pressure, courts cite environmental concerns, stop industrial expansion

THAILAND: Monitoring Reveals Air Toxin 33 Times Higher Than Acceptable Threshold

Rare triumph for the little people in Thailand over Toxic Pollution

Thai Villagers win pollution case- state refused to impose tougher environmental protection regulations for fear of hurting the investment climate

THAILAND: Map Ta Phut Residents file pollution complaint with court

Clean up the act

INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION Deaths blamed on Map Ta Phut

Noxious Emissions: Doctors beg for funds to move hospital

Public Forum: Map Ta Phut Industries - Sure to Continue?

Study: Area residents breathing highly toxic air ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION AT MAP TA PHUT

Take action for clean air and healthy communities in Thailand

VICTORIA AUSTRALIA

Watchdog sued in oil pollution battle

Environmental David and Goliath battle continues over Shell's emissions!

Residents resort to own air testing

Shell refinery cops a bucketing

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

YARLOOP, AUSTRALIA: US health campaigner Erin Brockovich takes on Alcoa

Activists tip a 'Bucket' on big companies- Erin Brockovitch takes community grassroots activism to a new level

Community Environment Groups launch AIR CARE AUSTRALIA

Keep Up to date on Western Australia Environmental concerns

Group Battling ALCOA sponsors National Bucket Brigade Training for Australia

Residents will do air testing the US way (ALCOA)

4,000 March for CROSS BORDER CO-OPERATION ON POLLUTION

Gibaltar/Spain: Refinery Spews Black Clouds- Bay Bucket Brigade team springs into action

Bucket Brigade gets going with pollution reduction in mind

WITH EQUIPMENT IN PLACE THE BAY BRIGADE WILL NOW TAKE OFF!!

GIBRALTAR BUCKET BRIGADE LAUNCHED

Ecologistas de ambos lados de la Verja unen sus fuerzas

Bucket Brigade Initiation Success

BEHIND THE SHINE - The Real Impacts of Shell's Work Around the World

Bucket brigades to create environmental monitoring communities

Teesside Bucket Brigade Launches

Statement from Archbishop Desmond Tutu regarding the attack on Goldman Prize Winner Willie Corduff

SHELL DISPUTE- IRELAND: Ministers hear depth of Corrib resistance first hand

IRELAND: Goldman Prize Winner Attacked by Shell Thugs During Peaceful Protest over Illegal Pipeline Project

IRELAND: Corrib gas talks expected to continue next month - Shell to Sea protestor jailed

County Mayo Ireland: 12 released after Corrib pipeline protest including Goldman Prize winner - Willie Corduff

Eyewitness video of County Mayo, Ireland battling Shell dangerous oil's 'raw gas' pipeline and refinery

Injunction to halt Corrib gas project sought at Europe Union

US human rights monitor examines Garda action at Rossport

Corrib appeals delayed as judge cites'personal conflict'- International watchdog, the Global Community Monitor attends.

REPORT OF AN INTERNATIONAL FACT FINDING DELEGATION TO COUNTY MAYO, IRELAND FEBRUARY 23-27, 2007

SPAIN / GIBRALTAR

SPAIN: FIRE AT CEPSA REFINERY

MEP PRESENTS DAMNING REPORT ON CAMPO POLLUTION TO EU COMMISSION

Gibraltar EU Parliment Member takes CEPSA refinery case to European Commission

CEPSA is fined 150,000 Euros by La Junta (article in Spanish)

Unsafe Levels of Nickel Pollution Found Near Refinery (Puente Mayorga supera los niveles permitidos en níquel)

Spanish Media report: Spanish Government Responds to Refinery Pollution (article in Spanish)

International Corporate Accountability Groups To Release New Report on CEPSA Refinery Campo Gibraltar

International Corporate Accountability Groups To Release New Report on CEPSA/Total Refinery Campo Gibraltar, Spain

CEPSA Refinery Responds to Environmental Campaign, But Defends Record

Green Pressure Mounts on Refinery

THE NETHERLANDS

SHUT DOWN SHELL OIL DEPOT, PHILIPPINES SUPREME COURT ORDERS

Shell safety record in North Sea takes a hammering

Russian watchdog to complete eco-damage assessment on Sakhalin II - 1

Shell hires Bush's environmental adviser

OIL SPILL AT THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

Sakhalin and Nigeria force Shell to shelve key targets

Profits up a fifth but Shell emits more CO2 than most countries

Shell earns £25,000 every 60 seconds by Widiane Moussa and Eugene Henderson.

New report about damage to the environment and communities caused by Shell Royal Dutch Shell: Use your profits to clean up your mess!

Shell Use your Profits to Clean up Your Mess

BP OIL: City of Neodesha seeks $423 million for oil pollution - Kansas David vs Oil Goliath

Refinery bottleneck to ease?

Record Failures at Oil Refineries Raise Gas Prices

Canada: Aamjiwnaang First Nation: 'Toxic cocktail' being tracked with buckets

Shell Under Fire From Greens, Shareholders

West Oakland Youth and CASS Pollution Watch

BERKELEY, CA: Join GCM at Informational Body Burden Meeting, November 4th

OAKLAND, CA: Community group files lawsuit against West Oakland recycling firm

OAKLAND, CA: Student-produced documentary features West Oakland community

OAKLAND, CA: Scrap Metal Plant Sued for Illegal SF Bay Pollution

Art Auction to Benefit West Oakland Air Monitoring Program

Young environmentalists tackle West Oakland pollution: Neighbors will start air monitoring project

New West Oakland Air Monitoring Program Targets Toxic Pollution from Troubled Scrap Metal and Aluminum Melting Plant - McClymonds EXCEL Law Academy Students Identified Threat from Scrap Metal facility

PROJECT GREEN: Into the Wilds of Oakland, California - Young pollution sleuths and community activists fight for healthier air.

Take Back Our Streets and Sidewalks - West Oakland! Public Meeting on CASS truck trailers blocking our streets - August 12th

West Oakland, CA: CASS Aluminum Smelter cited for 8 Hazardous Violations!

West Berkeley Community and Pacific Steel Campaign

BERKELEY, CA: Growing neighbor concerns underscore the importance of ongoing, comprehensive monitoring

BERKELEY, CA: Join GCM at Informational Body Burden Meeting, November 4th

Final West Berkeley Community Monitoring Project Sampling Results and Map

"Sources of Pollution and School Siting" April 28 - Congressional Briefing, Capitol Hill, DC

11 Lake firms named in air lawsuit - Steel mills included - Based on USA Today study

Healthy Schools Hero Award 2009 - Ruth Breech, Global Community Monitor!

EPA: Air tests near schools a priority

Berkeley residents angry over air quality Pacific Steel Casting blamed for threat to children's health

PROTEST: STOP Pacific Steel Casting's Toxic Emissions - Saturday, February 21 - 11 AM - 10th and Gilman - Berkeley

Young students often most vulnerable to toxic air:"That's why monitoring is so important," says Ruth Breech, program director for Global Community Monitor

East Bay Body Burden Project

East Bay Body Burden Project

BERKELEY, CA: Join GCM at Informational Body Burden Meeting, November 4th

California Other

RICHMOND, CA: Chevron environmental report 'unclear,' judge rules

Kingsburg animal feed plant at center of conflicting studies on widespread pollution: Manganese Threats

Tales of the Toxics Tourist: Hinkley, CA: Alive and kicking

Hinkley Residents Fear New Toxic Threat

Nation's First Regulation on Refinery Flares Under Fire

Boxer sets agenda on environment

Workshops to Ban Flaring - Fight Back Against Weak Refinery Flare Rule

Breathing Fire: in their own words: Media Coverage

Breathing Fire: New Refinery Flaring Report Targets Air District

Standing up for Vallejo Plan for power plant at closed shipyard turns residents into activists

TAR SANDS: AvaTAR SANDS ad appears in Variety

TAR SANDS: Shell to cut back Tar Sands development

TAR SANDS: Shell comes under attack from investors

Tar Sands Kills Again: Alberta oil spill kills hundreds of birds

Ripple Effect of Shell Decision: Rising costs present challenge to second refinery in Saint John

Shell backs out of oil sands project

Syncrude ducks tar sands critics at its peril

Time to draw a line in the oil sands

Protests dog Alberta PR campaign to Cover Up Tar Sands Disaster

Beyond Propaganda: Oil giant BP greenwashes Alberta tar sands

SARNIA, CANADA: Second Benzene Leak from Refinery Shuts Down Neighborhood

Aamjiwnaang First Nation: Imperial Oil darkens sky - second accident this week!

Shell refinery opponents celebrate!

Aamjiwnaang First Nation in Canada: A puzzle over fewer boy births

First Nation Bucket Brigade: Air sample reveals pollutants; chemical known to affect reproduction was found

Aamjiwnaang Background Sample Report

Second Air Test by Aamjiwnaang Bucket Brigade Highlights More Problems with Canada’s Pollution Laws - Reproductive Toxin Found in Air Sample at First Nation burial ground on ‘Clean’ Air Day

CANADA'S CHEMICAL VALLEY: Moving First Nation Reserve VS. Stay and Fight!

SEX RATIOS: CHEMICAL VALLEY: Male birth dearth persists on Ontario reserve

CANADA: Ecojustice draws a line: Aamjiwnaang opposes new chemical industries in area

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.: Recent Bucket Samples Show Hazardous Air Contaminants (video)

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.: Taking air samples by the bucketful

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.: Bucket Brigade (video)

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.: Put a lid on it

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.: Bucket Brigade Ready to Roll

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.: Air advocate offering advice

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.: Air Sampling To Begin in Prince George

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.: Greens in Prince George recruit U.S. group to test air

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.: 'Bucket Brigade' tests air in Prince George

PRINCE GEORGE, BC: GCM to help air quality advocates with odour testing

EDITORIAL: State health officials have no business sitting on cancer data

DELAWARE: State keeps wraps on cancer information

DELAWARE: 80 Claymont residents sue troubled steel recycler

DELAWARE: Claymont Steel plant ordered to clean up

CLAYMONT, DE: Soot from Claymont steel recycler continues to plague neighbors

CLAYMONT, DE: Ongoing environmental monitoring results in less toxic dust and new proposed pollution control settlement

CLAYMONT, DE: Claymont loses a champion of the past, a voice for change

CLAYMONT, DE: Fire at Claymont Steel injures worker

CLAYMONT, DE: Report reveals that Evraz Steel's dust control measures fail to stop toxic dust from raining on residents

CLAYMONT, DE: Claymont leaders say steel plant fails to cut emissions

Metallic soot plagues Claymont - Steel plant's emissions called 'phenomenally high' in air-quality study

Delaware schools in path of pollution: Manganese from Claymont Steel

Project seeks to rid village of gasoline, fumes in soil

ConocoPhillips to expand in Illinois

WHITING, IN: Gulf oil spill may impact BP's refinery expansion project in Whiting

WHITING, IN: BP oil refinery expansion raising concerns about safety of Great Lakes

Why We Need Green Jobs-A forum sponsored by Calumet Project-Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 5:00 PM

WHITING, IN: EPA Blocks Air Permit for BP Refinery Expansion

WHITING, IN: Residents 17 times more likely to develop disease as national average

WHITING, IN: BP seeks to allay benzene concerns

Residents to file suit over BP air pollution: The groups are against refining tar sands...

WHITING, IN: BP Cited For High Benzene Release

11 Lake firms named in air lawsuit - Steel mills included - Based on USA Today study

BP permit hearing delayed - Setback for Tar sands expansion

Learn about the toxics crisis in Detroit

Meet the affected community

DETROIT, MI: Watch first-hand accounts of life in Southwest Detroit

Read the latest Detroit campaign updates

BLOG: Detroit 48217: Dead Zone?

DETROIT, MI: Making an Impact at US Social Forum

DETROIT, MI: Michigan scolded over drop-off in air quality monitoring

DETROIT, MI: University study confirms Southwest Detroit is most polluted neighborhood in Michigan

DETROIT, MI: 48217: Life in Michigan's most polluted ZIP code

"We need protection, Detroiters tell EPA"

DETROIT, MI: High levels of lead found in mystery dust blanketing Southwest Detroit

DETROIT, MI: Residents meet with EPA officials, demand clean air

DETROIT, MI: Residents of Southwest Detroit pushing for moratorium on industrial expansion

DETROIT, MI: Activists Using Bucket Technology Capture Only Air Sample from Gas Vapors

Take action for clean air and healthy communities in Detroit

NORTH DAKOTA: Filling a need: New refinery plan is still in the works

SOUTH DAKOTA: Politicians and oil company at odds over proposed refinery plans

SOUTH DAKOTA: Hyperion says refinery still planned for 2015

SOUTH DAKOTA: Hyperion admits air permit was flawed, wants another chance to get it right

SOUTH DAKOTA: Hyperion challenges its own air permit

SOUTH DAKOTA: Media rushes to cover launching of Union County Bucket Brigade

SOUTH DAKOTA: Refinery Opponents Start Independent Air Monitoring

SOUTH DAKOTA: Hyperion Consultant Admits Refinery will Have More CO2 Emissions than Any Other US Refinery

SOUTH DAKOTA: Refinery opponents appeal air permit decision in court

SOUTH DAKOTA: Hyperion looks ahead to water permits

SOUTH DAKOTA: Hyperion renews about half of land options

TENNESSEE: Reflections on the one year anniversary of the Fly Ash Disaster

TENNESSEE: Video testimony in aftermath of TVA fly ash disaster

TENNESSEE: Coal ash spill featured on 60 Minutes (VIDEO)

Tennessee residents begin independent air monitoring at TVA coal ash disaster site - State’s monitoring fails to test for many dangerous toxins found in coal ash

Coal Ash Spill Disaster: Environmentalists question fly ash cloud - prepare to test the air themselves

Hopewell News - "Petition to Reduce 'Hopewell Smell' is Presented"

“Hopewell Smell” Harmful to Human Health - Southern Virginia Community Air Testing Program Finds Results Alarming

Hopewell Clean Air Network Bucket Brigade Air Test Results

Report: Hopewell air raises concern

The smell of asphalt in the air potential health hazard

Groups raise a stink over odor:The smell of asphalt is nothing unusual for City Point residents, but it may be more dangerous than expected.

Hopewell, Virginia: Bring on the bucket brigade

Hopewell air study to begin:

Sierra Club will test Hopewell air quality

Learn about the toxics crisis in West Virginia

Meet the affected community

Read the latest West Virginia campaign updates

BLOG: Living with Chemical Threats

WEST VIRGINIA: Kanawha Valley Residents Take Air Monitoring Into Their Own Hands

Take action for clean air and healthy communities in West Virginia

CORPUS CHRISTI, TX: State vows to study ground pollution, residents skeptical

CORPUS CHRISTI, TX: Community members derail housing project planned for contaminated lot

CORPUS CHRISTI, TX: Land for public housing project contaminated, report shows

CORPUS CHRISTI, TX: Hydrogen Fluoride causes concern for local communities

Refinery Neighbor Study shows high levels of benzene

U.S. Refineries' Carcinogenic Pollution Rose From 2004-2006, Underreporting of Millions of Pounds of Emissions Suspected

Results Of Toxicology Study On Pollution In Northside Released:

State agency accuses Citgo of 3 violations:"They're gassing the community repeatedly, with no regard for human health"

Former refinery neighbors recall illnesses - In cross-examination, some experts express uncertainty on cause

Guard: No one entered jury room in Citgo case - CITGO claims activist tampered with panel

PORT ARTHUR, TX: Concern over emissions from oil spill

GALVESTON, TX: GCM Partners win 2009 HERO Award

PORT ARTHUR: Tons of PCBs May Come Calling at a Down-at-the-Heels Texas City

PORT ARTHUR,TX: Shell Refinery worker claims assault through exposure to chemicals

PORT ARTHUR,TX: $7 Billion Expansion Updates Texas Refinery - Aramco, Shell to Double Size Of Historic Plant, Modify It To Handle 'Nastiest Crudes'

Protest of VX wastewater shipments veers from court back to street

A Lot of Nerve: The Army's deadly VX waste is burning in Port Arthur

Refinery ranked 2nd on environmentalist list

Greens plan challenge to Motiva's Texas expansion

Community monitoring and research leads to EJ victories

BLOG: Neighbors in Four Corners Area Fighting Hydraulic Fracturing

CEMEX neighors find heavy metals in dust

CEMEX Neighbors Find Mercury in their Dust

Blowing in the wind Cemex's toxic dust is found in Lyons homes

Mothers marching to clean up CEMEX - May 6th, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Pollution Not So Gone With the Wind

AIR OF SUSPICION- part 2- Unlikely rebels defeat gritty plant

AIR OF SUSPICION- part 1

Residents of County of top twenty most toxic to test there air - Bucket Brigade Strikes Again!

Tests Prove Threatening Chemicals in Particulate Pollution in Community

When they are heard, they roar!

Soot sleuths: Volunteers monitor industrial plant emissions

Volunteers monitor industrial plant emissions

Tales of Toxics Tourists

Newtown Florist Club hosts National Environmental Justice Meeting and Tour

Attend - National Bucket Brigade Conference - Sept. 8 - Atlanta

AGENDA FOR NATIONAL BUCKET BRIGADE COMMUNITY MONITORING FAIR AND TRAININGS

National Bucket Brigade Coalition 2007 Conference Sept. 8, 2007

Purina mill takes flack: Agency satisfied plant is following air quality rules, but residents want more!

'Brigade' fights air pollution

High-profile activist Louis Coleman dies

Zeon agreement being rewritten: Attorneys lose lead plaintiff's support

Odor-rule crackdown urged Activists ask Louisville to step up enforcement

Neighbors, plant reach tentative settlement

Derailment 'a wake-up call' about Rubbertown

TOXIC AIR UPDATE A Message from Rubbertown Emergency ACTion (REACT)

Chemical stench linked to Rubbertown plant

Rubbertown still hot spot for toxic air Exposure up to 60 times that in eastern Louisville

AUGUST 2006 - Louisville, KY The Bucket Brigade is Back!!

Toxic air plan draws praise, criticism 175 pack hearing on regulations

LOUISIANA: Community Group Sues Murphy Oil Over Air Pollution

LOUISIANA: Bucket Brigade founder honored: Group keeps pollution in check at local sites

Katrina Survivors Fight Murphy Oil Permit for More Pollution & More Tanks After Disaster

Shell, DEQ settle emission charges

St. Bernard re-writing emergency operations plan

Refinery residue drifts over schoolchildren

Long Time Clean Air Champion Wins Catholic Award

New Study Exposes Exxon Chalmette Refining’s Accident Rate

Margie Eugene Richard of Norco, Louisiana Campaigned For Justice Against Oil Giant Shell and Won Relocation for 300 Families from Toxic Releases

Hurricane Katrina Disaster

Eyewitness Reports

Ken Ford, President St. Bernard Citizens for Environment Quality

Wilma Subra Notes from the Hurricane Impacted area

Editorial Comments

Katrina's Toxic Brew May Save Uninsured

From Sucker's Bets for the New Century

Open Waste Burning

We've got a Love Canal down here

Hurricane Katrina - Our Experiences

Louisiana Refineries flooded and flaring!

AUDIT OF EPA/ DEQ SAMPLES REVEALS AIR CONTAMINATION AND HEALTH HAZARDS

Storm Stretches Refiners Past a Perilous Point

The Entire Community Is Now a Toxic Waste Dump

New Orleans' toxic tide

Oil spillages spread through Mississippi wetlands

Katrina Stirs Up Oily Nightmare

Exxon says several weeks to assess Chalmette Refinery damage

Hallan tóxico cancerígeno en la región

Obtienen muestras de aire en zonas de industrias contaminantes

Extenderá 'Brigada de Cubetas' monitoreo en la zona

Bucket Brigade detects high levels of carcinogenic benzene in Southern Veracruz

Green-Peace y otras asociaciones

FIRST AIR TEST FOR TOXIC CONTAMINATION IN MEXICO SHOWS DANGEROUS CHEMICALS IN EVERY BREATH TAKEN BY PEMEX NEIGHBORS

Testing their own air

Pemex Suspends Release of Gases

Experts from the United States Monitor Contamination

Air tests obtained in zones with contaminating industries

Coal Ash Spill Disaster: Environmentalists question fly ash cloud - prepare to test the air themselves

Don't miss USA Today on the first hour of the Today Show for a series focusing on the impacts of toxic pollution and school children.

Fire put out at Eramet plant

Ohio EPA delays modifying air-pollution policy on odors

Researchers Assess Exposure to Metal Emissions in Marietta

Platform: Parents want tighter controls on pollution

Citizens group monitors area’s air

Capturing Flats' bad air in a bucket Amateur free-lance patrols aim to clean up Cuyahoga Valley

OHIO RESIDENTS NEAR ASPHALT PLANTS TURN TO LOW-TECH DEVICE TO TEST AIR

Sunoco settles pollution suit

Testing reinforces air quality findings

Understanding Clean Air Act

Air-Pollution Samplers Given $3,200 Grant

Lessening the Scares in the Air Contra Costans begin noting chemical discharges

NORTHEASTERN US

NEW ORDINANCE: Train riders may be boarding at roundhouse in Rockland, Maine:

Rockland, Maine: First Community AIr Tests of Toxic Train

Rockland: Groups join forces to gauge air pollution all over Maine

Clean Air for Rockland, others launch community air checks

RESIDENTS MAY TAKE OWN AIR SAMPLES

REPORT SHOWS ALTON A SAFETY 'NUISANCE'

NEW YORK: Tonawanda community pressing for fines for air quality violations by coke plant.

NEW YORK: Bucket Brigade leader returns to Tonawanda

NEW YORK: After evidence from Bucket Brigade, EPA raids Tonawanda Coke

Two plants accused of air pollution

Cheektowaga Citizens' Coalition Fights Back

Editorial: Hydrogen sulfide results deserve closer look

Citizens warn of air from quarry

Kodak, activists spar over air tests Company, group use different procedures to analyze samples

Activists demand Kodak air study

Kodak fails air tests, activists say

SOUTH AMERICA / CARIBBEAN

Island of Curacao battles to close dirty and deadly refinery

Farmers Take Shell Row to the City

Shell Out Time!

Either to the local government takes action now, or we will request international action

Politicians have mixed reactions to declarations made by PdVSA-top man

Achuar Nation Wins Landmark Agreement to Stop Toxic Contamination of Rainforest Homelands After 14-day Blockade

Environmental sampling techniques

Air Pollution Manual

Introduction to Soil Sampling

Wipe Sampling for PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons)

Introduction to Wipe Sampling

Chemical odours

Odor analysis of emissions for a chemical fiber unit

Odor pollution in the environment and detection instrumentation

Odor Perception Thresholds Versus Danger Levels of Airborne Gases and Particulate Matter.

Odor Threshold Concentration

Odors from mycelium sludge waste and bone meal manufacturing

Odors: Fish Drying and Fishy Smells

Detection of Dioxin-like Contaminants in Soil from the Area of Oil Refineries in Vojvodina Region of Serbia

Dioxon & Health: A Review of Dioxin's Effects for Doctors

PVC -- The Poison Plastic: Useful links

Lay, Community and Worker 'Epidemiology': An Integrating Strand in Participatory Research

Pandian Chemicals: What the Government Won't Tell You

Perchlorate Chemistry, Use, and Health Effects Fact Sheet

Air Quality Factsheet

Dioxins, PCBs in Human Tissue, Fish, Meat, and Wildlife from India

Landfills: Assessment of Risks. Environment Agency, UK. May 2004

Birds of Prey; Conoco, Condea Vista and PPG Feeding off of Mossville and Calcasieu Parish

TAKE ACTION: Sign the Petition for Clean Energy

TAKE ACTION: Protect Children From Deadly Hydrogen Sulfide

INVITATION: 2nd International Bucket Brigade and Community Environmental and Health Monitoring Conference

Donate to International Bucket Brigade Conference

Take Action To Clean Up Berkeley Steel Mill Heavy Metal Pollution

Send an Action Alert

Sign our Petition for Clean Energy

Start a Bucket Brigade

Volunteer with GCM

Florida Community Triumphs Over Royal Oak Charcoal Factory

Agreement Reached with Shell by Environmental Justice Community in Port Arthur, Texas