NEW YORK
In the Buffalo area, CCC and CAC use the Bucket Brigade strategy to address toxic emissions and expose public health threats.
ENGLAND
IMPACT is a group of residents living in the heavily-industrialized Teesside Valley of Northern England, working to reduce industrial pollution.
SPAIN/GIBRALTAR
ESG has organized in cooperation with groups
in Spain to collectively address cross-border pollution from a number
of toxic hazards, including the CEPSA refinery.
SOUTHERN AFRICA
In cooperation with community groups in
Southern Africa, groundWork uses the Bucket Brigade strategy to
reduce toxic threats and advance environmental justice.
KAZAKHSTAN/RUSSIA
Crude Accountability is working with groups
of residents in Kazakhstan and Russia to use the Bucket Brigade
strategy to win corporate and government accountability.
THAILAND
CAIN works with community groups throughout
the country to advocate for a national right-to-know policy and the
reduction of toxic pollution.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Yarloop residents are using the Bucket
Brigade strategy to reduce pollution and clean-up toxic threats from
ALCOA's aluminum facility.
PHILIPPINES
UFO-OD and FCHSEP are working for the full
relocation of the Pandacan Oil Depot in order to reduce toxic hazards
and the threat of catastrophic accidents.
VICTORIA AUSTRALIA
The Geelong Community for Good Life has
established Australia's first Bucket Brigade to address toxic threats
from the Shell refinery.
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
Youth and Residents of Industrial Neighborhoods in West Oakland and West Berkeley are using 'particle buckets' to track pollution.
MEXICO
APETAC is a group of farmers and campesinos
in Veracruz, using the Bucket Brigade strategy to address toxic
threats from refinery production and waste disposal practices.
OHIO
Ohio Citizen Action uses the Bucket Brigade
strategy and a Good Neighbor campaign to address various toxic
threats throughout Ohio.
COLORADO
Residents of Battlement Mesa are fighting the impacts of natural gas fracking through the use of Bucket Brigades
GEORGIA
The Newtown Florists Club uses the Bucket
Brigade strategy to target toxic polluters in their area.
TEXAS
CIDA (Port Arthur) and CFEJ (Corpus Christi)
combine the Bucket Brigade strategy with other community empowerment
methods to reduce toxic exposures from refineries.
FLORIDA
CATE (Pensacola) and NCNWO (Ocala) are using
the Bucket Brigade strategy to identify toxic air pollution threats
and hold Florida officials accountable.
LOUSIANA
LABB, in cooperation with SBCEQ, uses the
Bucket Brigade strategy to address toxic threats from the nearby
Exxon/Mobil refinery.
INDIA
The India Community Environmental Monitoring
initiative seeks to involve villagers in the fight against pollution
by engaging them in environmental and health monitoring.
PENNSYLVANIA
CRLTC and CWA are using the Bucket Brigade
strategy to address toxic threats posed by a Sunoco refinery.
KENTUCKY
REACT is working to uphold protections in a
new air toxics regulation by using the Bucket Brigade to hold
industry accountable.
NORTHEASTERN
Toxics Action is working with local
communities to use the Bucket Brigade to target toxic polluters and
reduce their negative health impacts.
CURACAO
HCF is working in
the Caribbean to protect human rights and public health from toxic
threats posed by refineries.
ONTARIO, CANADA
Aamjiwnaang First Nation residents are using the Bucket Brigade to be their own environmental police.
IRELAND
GCM supports Shell to Sea Camapign to move Shell's refinery offshore for safety reasons. A Human Rights investigation into police actions is essential.
ZAMBIA
GCM works with DECOP to empower neighbors of Copper mines/smelters to monitor their environment and win justice!
KENYA
RECONCILE and E-LAW are empowering communities near the Pan African Paper Mill to win environmental justice!
INDIANA
The Calumet Bucket Brigade tracks pollution in the East Chicago area from BP refinery and the Confined Dredging Facility
SOUTH DAKOTA
Global Community Monitor is working with residents to stop the proposed 400,000 barrel a day new refinery from being built in the rich farming zone of southeast South Dakota
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Oceans and Communities Project
works with coastal communities and environmental organizations to defend the oceans and the rights of coastal peoples from large-scale industrial threats, such as deep sea mining and industrial fishing.
DELAWARE
Neighbors of Steel Mills and Port facilities are working to hold companies and Delaware agencies accountable for dust pollution and health impacts.
VIRGINIA
Residents of Hopewell and the Virginia Sierra
Club are working to find out what's in the air and clean it up.
TENNESSEE
United Mountain Defense works with coal impacted communities to protect
their health
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.
People's Action Committee for Health Air (PACHA) uses a bucket to monitor emissions from pulp mills and a refinery.
ISRAEL
The Kesem Bucket Brigade (Hebrew for "magic") empowers communities throughout Israel to take responsibility for their environment.
DETROIT
Residents of Southwest Detroit started a Bucket Brigade to assist in their ongoing battle to keep new industry out of their already over polluted community.
WEST VIRGINIA
Residents of Institute, West Virginia are taking air monitoring into their own hands.
NEW MEXICO
Residents of Aztec and the San Juan Alliance are using air sampling to fight against natural gas fracking in their backyards.
FRAZIER MOUNTAIN
Tri-County Watchdogs are fighting severe particle pollution in this beautiful mountain community.
ALBERTA
Communities and First Nations are fighting back against Tar Sands oil development projects poisoning their environment.