For Immediate Release
Contact:
Bradley Angel, Greenaction (415) 248-5010 x 101; cell (415) 722-5270
Dailan Long, Navajo tribal member/Dine CARE (505) 801-0713
Maricela Mares Alatorre, Kettleman City resident, El Pueblo/People for Clean Air (559) 816-9298


Community Members to Speak Out Against US EPA’S Pro-Polluter Decisions
Protest Will Demand Action to Remedy Climate Change and Environmental Racism

San Francisco - - Thirty community, environmental justice, indigenous & environmental groups will protest the visit of Stephen Johnson, US EPA’s Administrator, and denounce EPA’s pro-polluter policies, Friday, August 22, noon at EPA Headquarters at 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco.

Bay Area community groups from Bayview Hunters Point, Richmond, and San Leandro will be joined by Navajo activists furious about EPA’s recent approval of a coal-fired power plant that threatens the health of residents and will increase climate change. Also joining the protest will be residents of Kettleman City, the San Joaquin Valley farmworker community where EPA is trying to approve expanded dumping of hazardous waste. Bayview Hunter Point residents are angry at EPA’s failure to ensure the safe cleanup of toxic waste at the contaminated Hunters Point Naval Shipyard site. Speakers will document US EPA’s pro-polluter policies that contribute to climate change and their environmental racism and injustice towards low-income and communities of color.

Key EPA actions that will be protested include:

Ø EPA’s veto of California’s attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars
Ø EPA’s approval of the proposed Desert Rock Coal-Fired Power Plant on the
Navajo Nation in a community already harmed by two dirty coal plants
Ø EPA’s failure to ensure a safe cleanup of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco
Ø EPA’s proposed approval of more PCB and hazardous waste dumping in the
San Joaquin Valley farmworker community of Kettleman City
Ø EPA’s failure to close the Siemen’s toxic waste plant on Colorado River Indian Tribes
land in Arizona, where EPA has allowed this polluter to operate for almost two decades
without proper permits, emitting toxic pollutants and desecrating a sacred mountain.
Ø EPA’s approval of the deadly poison Methyl Iodide as a large scale pesticide fumigant