[S-C] Ward Valley Victory...and Web Site Updates

[Bradley Angel]

Dear friend,

We are pleased to report a big victory for health and environmental 
justice! Assembly Bill 2214 (sponsored by Assembly Member Fred 
Keeley) passed the California State Legislature and was signed by 
Governor Davis, prohibiting once and for all the use of Ward Valley 
as a potential nuclear waste dump site.  This is an important victory 
for everyone who cares about health, the environment and Native 
American rights.  The nuclear industry had tried unsuccessfully for 
years to get permits for a dump at at Ward Valley for highly 
radioactive waste - primarily from nuclear power plants.  They had 
hoped to dump this waste in unlined dirt trenches above an aquifer, 
with pathways to the Colorado River, drinking and agricultural water 
source for over 20 million people.  Ward Valley is also sacred to the 
area's Native Nations, who helped lead a giant coalition effort to 
stop the dump.  Greenaction is proud to have worked with our Native 
and non-Native allies to win this long and hard-fought victory!

Read about the Ward Valley victory and our other campaigns including:

* Clean The Air Festival and Protest against Red Star Yeast/LaSaffre 
Corporation's pollution in West Oakland, Saturday, Sept. 28th;
* Stanislaus County campaigns against a dump expansion proposal and a 
big garbage incinerator;
* New campaign against the International Uranium Corporation's White 
Mesa Uranium Mill and radioactive dump in Southern Utah, next to the 
White Mesa Ute Reservation and Navajo communities;
* New campaign in San Rafael, protesting the bad neighbor San Rafael 
Rock Quarry that emits toxic diesel and dust emissions into 
surrounding neighborhoods;
* October 30, noon, Cancer Industry Tour of San Francisco's Financial 
District - help expose the Cancer Industry that profits from 
pollution.

WE ARE ASKING EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTS GREENACTION TO PLEASE MAKE AS 
GENEROUS A DONATION AS POSSIBLE TO ALLOW GREENACTION TO CONTINUE OUR 
SUCCESSFUL AND IMPORTANT WORK FOR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES AND 
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE.

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Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice
http://www.greenaction.org

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