Speak Out For Clean Air and Environmental Justice!!

See Also:

12/16/02 Read Greenaction's Comments to the San Joaquin Valley Air District opposing Covanta's application for a Title V Clean Air Act permit for their incinerator in Crow's Landing, CA

10/8/02 Community Youth, Residents and Greenaction Challenge Garbage Incinerator in Stanislaus County at Bogus "Public Hearing" Read the Modesto Bee news story! Read Modesto Bee news coverage of pressure being applied by residents and Greenaction, as well as the permit being sought.

Residents & Environmental Justice Groups Launch Fight to Stop County Plans to Build Giant Dump for Out-of-County Garbage and Sewage Sludge, as well as Modesto Bee Press Coverage and Editorial

For more information, contact:

Grayson Neighborhood Council	(209) 895-3352
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice	(415) 248-5010

Stop the Covanta Waste-to-Energy Garbage Incinerator

• A company called Covanta operates a garbage incinerator in Crow's Landing that burns about 800 tons per day of solid waste
  
  
• The incinerator emits dangerous toxic chemicals and toxic metals into the air, including dioxin, one of the most toxic chemicals known to science
  
  
• Even low levels of dioxin can cause illnesses such as cancer & birth defects
  
  
• The company claims that the design and technology of their incinerator system "insures complete combustion and breaks down dioxin" and is environmentally safe." The truth is that the incinerator cannot completely or safely destroy all the waste being burned, and in fact creates dioxin and emits it into the air.
  
  
• The incinerator tried two years ago to import medical waste from across the state to be burned here, but concerned residents stopped that toxic threat!
  
  
• The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District has approved new pollution permits for the incinerator, but residents and Greenaction will continue our campaign to close the incinerator and end the emissions of dioxin and other pollutants into the air.