POWER’s campaign to clean up dirty developers
In its comments on the Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard Environmental Impact Report, POWER focused on the carcinogens and radiological contamination at the Shipyard; the dangers of liquefaction; climate change and sea level rise; transportation impacts from the proposed development; the connection of the development to the existing community; and the preservation of historic Ohlone sites.
Tags: abatement procedures, adjacent elementary schools, Administrative Orders on Consent, Alice Griffith public housing development, American Indian Movement West, asbestos, Bayview Hunters Point, beryllium, Bret Harte Elementary School, cancer clusters, Candlestick Point, Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard Phase II Development Plan Project Draft Environmental Impact Report, carbon tetrachloride, carcinogens, chemicals and radioactive materials, chlorinated pesticides, chloroform, chromium, chromium VI, climate change and sea level rise, construction activities, copper, early transfer, Early Transfer Cooperative Agreement, ecological assessments, environmental and human health exposures, Environmental Impact Report, environmental justice, environmental racism, environmental review process, hazardous contaminants, hazardous materials, heavy metals, heavy metals (arsenic, heavy metals (chromium VI, historic indigenous ceremonial and burial sites, historic Ohlone sites, human and ecological receptors, Hunters Point Shipyard, Hunters Point Shipyard (HPS), hydrocarbons, Indian People Organized for Change, International Indian Treaty Council, lack of enforcement, lead, Lennar’s Environmental Impact Report (EIR), liquefaction, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, MacArthur Foundation ‘genius’ grant recipient, manganese, Marylee Orr, mechanism for immediate notification, mercury, mercury and nickel), Muhammad University of Islam, Muhammad University of Islam (MUI), naphthalene, nickel and zinc), Ohlone nation, Ohlone Profiles Project, PCBs, People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), pesticides, petroleum hydrocarbons, polluters, polluting industries, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, protection of human health and the environment, radiological cleanup activities, radiological contamination, radionuclides, remedial activities, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, San Francisco Planning Department, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, semi-volatile organic compounds, site remediation, Superfund site, Technical Assistance Services for Communities (TASC), tetrachloroethane and others), toxic spills, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Navy, United Native Americans, volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds, volatile organic compounds (VOC: benzene, Wilma Subra Ph.D.
Congolese children work, fight and die for our cell phones and diamonds
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the green heart of Africa. The country has the second largest rainforest in the world. It is resource rich but plagued with humanitarian crises resulting from the plundering of the DRC’s mineral resources are severe.
Tags: Ann Garrison, bauxite, Breaking the Silence on the Congo Week, cadmium, cassiterite, child labor, child soldiers, coal, cobalt, coltan, conflict diamonds, Congo Friends, consumer electronics, copper, De Beers, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), diamond, diamond mines, Dustin Blitchok, Friends of the Congo, germanium, gold, human rights, industrial and gem diamonds, International Rescue Committee, iron ore, Katanga Province, manganese, Mbjui Mayi, mineral resources, niobium, radium, rainforest, Rwanda Metals, safe drinking water, Second Congo War, Shinkolobwe uranium mine, silver, tantalum, timber, tin, UNICEF, uranium, zinc
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