[S-C] Big Greenaction Website Update and Urgent Action Alert for Bayview Hunters Point

[Bradley Angel]

Please visit Greenaction's website for lots of exciting updates, action=20
alerts, photos, and news stories on campaigns including:

* Greenaction and Hanford and county residents fight proposed plastics=20
catalytic cracking "incinerator in disguise" plant. See photos and read=20
coverage or our press conference and our success in getting the San Joaquin=
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Valley Air District to suspend the company's permits to construct!
* news from Alameda and Oakland, Bayview Hunters Point, San Joaquin Valley,=
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Arizona Indian lands and Utah campaigns

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Urgent Bayview Hunters Point Action Alert

Residents of the low-income community of color in San Francisco=92s Bayview=
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Hunters Point neighborhood have been fighting for more than eight years to=
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close PG&E=92s unnecessary and polluting power plant in Bayview Hunters=20
Point.  Greenaction and our community coalition allies have done our own=20
technical analysis that proves the PG&E power plant can be closed today
with no interruption of power to city residents.  Future energy needs=20
should be met with renewable energy and conservation, not polluting fossil=
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fuel power plants.

The California Independent System Operator corporation (CAISO), a=20
quasi-governmental organization that regulates California=92s electrical=20
grid, had promised to close the plant once new transmission projects were=20
completed to improve area reliability.
Now CAISO has added a new unjust and unacceptable demand =AD--- Potrero Hill=
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residents must surrender their right to environmental review of a proposed=
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retrofit of the Mirant Potrero 3 Power Plant=ADor in retaliation PG&E=92s=20
Hunters Point Plant will be permitted by the ISO to continue to pollute=20
Southeast San Francisco.  This is an outrageous attempt to pit one=20
community against another that would result in the continued pollution of=20
the Bayview Hunters Point community that already suffers epidemic rates of
asthma and cancer.

Call the California Independent System Operator today and tell them that=20
residents of San Francisco and people all over the country stand together=20
for health and environmental justice and join in the demand that PG&E=92s=20
Hunters Point Plant must be closed NOW!

Michael Kahn, Chairman, CAISO  Telephone: 415.986.2800
Robert Kott, CAISO Manager of Reliability Contracts  (916) 608-5804
Julie Gill, CAISO Community Liaison  (916) 351-2221

Background on this issue can be found at http://www.greenaction.org