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communities taking action against pcbs

PCBs never should have been released into our communities and our global environment in massive quantities. But the good news is that communities are taking action to protect themselves -- and all of us! Here are some of the successes in communities across the U.S.A.:

• On the Housatonic River, after a fight of more than ten years, cleanup of the most PCB-contaminated section has taken place.
• In Warren County, North Carolina, where a PCB dump was forced on an African-American community, the PCBs there are now being destroyed using an innovative method that the community helped select.
• In Anniston, Alabama, after civil rights leaders and environmentalists marched together, the courts have granted judgements of over $*** to community members.
• Alaskan natives are working with Alaska Community Action on Toxics and a science team on a four-year project (part of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences’ Environmental Justice Initiative) to address the military contamination on St. Lawrence Island, as well as long-range contamination.

For more information, and to connect up with PCBs and Health activists in your area, here are some links:

• Alaska Community Action on Toxics - Anchorage, Alaska
• Cancer Action - New York
• Center for Health, Environment and Justice - Falls Church, Virginia
• Citizens against Pollution - Anniston, Alabama
• Citizens' Environmental Coalition -- Albany Buffalo, New York
• Citizens for PCB Removal - Pittsfield, Massachusetts
• Clean Water Action -- Boston, Massachusetts
• Clean Water Action Council - Green Bay, Wisconsin
• Coast Alliance - Washington, DC
• Connecticut State Green Party -- Hartford, Connecticut
• Coosa River Basin Initiative - Rome, Georgia
• Coalition Opposed to PCB Ash - Monroe County, Indiana
• Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - Seattle, Washington
• Environmental Advocates -- Albany, New York
• Friends of a Clean Hudson -- New York
• Hands Across the River -- New Bedford, Massachusetts
• Holyoke Citizens - Holyoke, Massachusetts
• Housatonic Environmental Action League -- Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut
• Housatonic River Initiative - Pittsfield, Massachusetts
• Kalamazoo River Protection Association - 325 Hubbard St Allegan, MI 49010
• NJ/NY Environmental Watch - Elizabeth, New Jersey and New York, New York
• Ohio Citizen Action - Cincinnati, Ohio
• Residents Environmentally Acting for Change - Brockport, New York
• Riverkeeper - Garrison, New York
• Scenic Hudson - Poughkeepsie, New York
• The Calumet Project, Hammond, Indiana
• The Schaghticoke Indian Tribe of Kent, Connecticut
• Sierra Club, Connecticut Chapter
• Sierra Club Midwest Region - Traverse City, Michigan
• Sierra Club Water Sentinels - Cincinnati, Ohio
• South Bronx Clean Air Coalition, Bronx, N.Y.
• Stratford Action For the Environment - Stratford, Connecticut
• Toxics Action Center - Boston, Massachusetts and West Hartford, Connecticut
• UNCAGED - Nassau , New York
• Waterkeeper Alliance - Tarrytown, New York