MICHIGAN

DETROIT, MI: Residents of Southwest Detroit pushing for moratorium on industrial expansion In heavily industrialized Southwest Detroit, residents like Jayne Mounce are fed up with breathing toxic air. Under GCM's guidance, residents started a Bucket Brigade last year, catching the attention of the Detroit City Council, State Legislators, government agencies and local industry.

DETROIT, MI: Activists Using Bucket Technology Capture Only Air Sample from Gas Vapors Within a month of being training by GCM in using buckets to sample the air, community members are using the technology to capture hard data on the toxics to which they are being exposed.

DETROIT, MI: Big Stink! Neighbors worry it's toxic air Because of results from their bucket testing, neighbors in southwest Detroit are calling for an investigation claiming the air they are breathing is toxic.

DETROIT, MI: Bucket Brigade collects air sample, discovers high level of toxic chemicals Residents of the Southwest Detroit 48217 zip code community in Southwest Detroit have discovered high levels of toxic chemicals in their air. The community discovered the toxins while conducting their own air monitoring with an EPA approved “Bucket” device. They point to the Marathon Refinery as a possible source, and will call on the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) to investigate.

DETROIT, MI: Community Groups Launch Community Air Monitoring in Toxic Hot Spots with Training from Global Pollution Watchdog For the first time Detroit community members will be testing the air they breathe with method developed by Erin Brockovitch

TENNESSEE

TENNESSEE: Reflections on the one year anniversary of the Fly Ash Disaster On December 22, 2008 the largest coal fly ash disaster in the world occurred in Roane County, Tennessee along the banks of the Emory River at the Kingston Electric Coal Plant which is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

TENNESSEE: Video testimony in aftermath of TVA fly ash disaster United Mountain Defense has begun training local residents to use YouTube to document their lives in the aftermath of the TVA Coal Ash Spill. The first such effort is a sobering account of polluted waterways, dead animals and acute health effects.

TENNESSEE: Coal ash spill featured on 60 Minutes (VIDEO) Investigative piece highlight the aftermath of the apocalyptic Tennessee coal ash disaster.

Tennessee residents begin independent air monitoring at TVA coal ash disaster site - State’s monitoring fails to test for many dangerous toxins found in coal ash Members of United Mountain Defense and the Tennessee Coal Ash Survivors Network received training from the Global Community Monitor

Coal Ash Spill Disaster: Environmentalists question fly ash cloud - prepare to test the air themselves "We're working with the Tennessee Coal Ash Survivors Network in order to get local residents trained in how to identify when there are dust storms occurring and being trained in order to use the air monitoring equipment," Landon says

VIRGINIA

Hopewell News - "Petition to Reduce 'Hopewell Smell' is Presented" On Jan. 22, the Hopewell Clean Air Network made its first formal steps to reduce smells and the chemicals that cause them in the city and surrounding area. A petition with about 80 signatures was presented to Regional Enterprise Inc., which produces asphalt, to mitigate smells it releases around City Point.

“Hopewell Smell” Harmful to Human Health - Southern Virginia Community Air Testing Program Finds Results Alarming Hopewell’s air has long been known to residents and down-winders as having a characteristic ‘smell’ that is unpleasant, but until recently, no one knew what hazards it might contain.

Hopewell Clean Air Network Bucket Brigade Air Test Results Air tests in Hopewell reveal toxic air in the community.

Report: Hopewell air raises concern A Hopewell citizens group today will release a report indicating that some smells in the city are caused by substances that are harmful to residents.

The smell of asphalt in the air potential health hazard It's a question a lot of citizens are asking it's horrible and then when you walk in your house you can smell about a month so of course it bothers me complaints like these from enterprises prompted hopewell citizen and Sierra Club employee Jim Gould to conduct an air quality study on Water Street

DELAWARE

DELAWARE: State keeps wraps on cancer information Could there be more cancer clusters in Delaware, once known as the "Chemical Capital of the World" and home to industrial plants that emit some of the nation's dirtiest air? Delaware, after all, has long had one of the highest cancer death rates in the United States.

SOUTH DAKOTA

SOUTH DAKOTA: Refinery Opponents Start Independent Air Monitoring November 17th, 2009 Hyperion Refinery opponents will start an independent local air monitoring process to expose the State’s flawed program recently established near the proposed refinery site in Union County, SD.

SOUTH DAKOTA: Hyperion Consultant Admits Refinery will Have More CO2 Emissions than Any Other US Refinery An op ed by a professor emeritus reveals that a consultant for Hyperion admitted that the proposed refinery will release more CO2 per barrel of oil refined than any other refinery.

SOUTH DAKOTA: Refinery opponents appeal air permit decision in court As promised, opponents have gone to court to try to overturn a state board's decision last month that awarded a key environmental permit for a proposed $10 billion oil refinery and power plant in Union County.

INDIANA

Why We Need Green Jobs-A forum sponsored by Calumet Project-Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 5:00 PM Join us for an important discussion about putting Northwest Indiana back to work and protecting the environment

WHITING, IN: EPA Blocks Air Permit for BP Refinery Expansion EPA raises questions about increased emissions from tars sands crude.

WHITING, IN: Residents 17 times more likely to develop disease as national average What if you found out that your neighborhood had one of the highest cancer rates in the country?

WHITING, IN: BP seeks to allay benzene concerns BP estimates up to 22 pounds of benzene per day over a 6 year period could have been emitted into the air.

Residents to file suit over BP air pollution: The groups are against refining tar sands... The legal notice comes after EPA announced Tuesday that BP emitted benzene without proper pollution controls at its treatment plant for nearly six years.

CANADA

TAR SANDS: Shell to cut back Tar Sands development In the wake of stepped up pressure from investors, Shell has announced that it will dramatically decrease its future tar sands development.

TAR SANDS: Shell comes under attack from investors The oil giant Shell has recently come under attack from many of its investors who are questioning the company's investment in Canadian tar sands

Tar Sands Kills Again: Alberta oil spill kills hundreds of birds Alberta's oil and gas industry is again in the environmental dock, as a spill at an oil well in the province has killed up to 500 ducks and swallows, according to reports from the scene.

Ripple Effect of Shell Decision: Rising costs present challenge to second refinery in Saint John Shell Canada's decision to scrap plans for a new multi-billion oil refinery in Ontario sheds some light on the challenges facing a second oil refinery in Saint John.

Shell backs out of oil sands project Shell's decision could affect BP Whiting's ultimate fate, said Denny Larson, executive director of California-based Global Community Monitor, who has helped the Hammond-based Bucket Brigade protest BP Whiting's modernization.

ILLINOIS

NORTH DAKOTA

NORTH DAKOTA: Filling a need: New refinery plan is still in the works A $457,000 federal Energy Department grant to study the feasibility of a new oil refinery in North Dakota doesn't slow down plans already in the works for a 100,000 barrel-per-day plant proposed for Williston.

COLORADO

FLORIDA

Pollution Not So Gone With the Wind by Mari Saugier Krueger, Independent News November 9th, 2006 Chasing the wind is exactly what this group of environmentalists is doing. Chasing, bagging and analyzing. Read about environmental monitoring in Pensacola.

Residents of County of top twenty most toxic to test there air - Bucket Brigade Strikes Again! by Lynette Wilson, Pensacola News Journal February 22nd, 2006 The Bay Area Safe Air Coalition conducted "Bucket Brigade" training Monday and Tuesday at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church for more than 40 people interested in improving air quality in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.

GEORGIA

Tales of Toxics Tourists by Denny and Ruth September 18th, 2007 Dateline: Georgia. Taking the Newtown Toxic Tour

Newtown Florist Club hosts National Environmental Justice Meeting and Tour Gainesville, GA--The Newtown Florist Club hosted and toured individuals attending the 2007 National Bucket Brigade Coalition Conference in Atlanta this weekend. Representatives from Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Ohio, California

Attend - National Bucket Brigade Conference - Sept. 8 - Atlanta Learn how to do your own monitoring at our Training and Fair - Register Today! What are you breathing? What’s really in your water and soil? WHO is responsible for the contamination? Find out how your group can be empowered to monitor and clean up your community

AGENDA FOR NATIONAL BUCKET BRIGADE COMMUNITY MONITORING FAIR AND TRAININGS

KENTUCKY

AUGUST 2006 - Louisville, KY The Bucket Brigade is Back!! August 1st, 2006 AUGUST 2006 - Louisville, KY The Bucket Brigade is Back!! Residents no longer have to wait anywhere from hours to days (or never) for someone to come out and investigate an odor. They are now equipped to take air samples themselves. The Bucket has made that possible.

LOUISIANA

LOUISIANA: Community Group Sues Murphy Oil Over Air Pollution Concerned Citizens Around Murphy seeks justice for 130 violations of the Clean Air Act by the oil giant.

LOUISIANA: Bucket Brigade founder honored: Group keeps pollution in check at local sites Anne Rolfes, founder of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, has beenhonored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for her leadership and advocacy in environmental health. Rolfes is one of 10 people across the United States to receive the foundation's 2007 Community Health Leaders award. Recipients receive $105,000 to further their work, as well as a $20,000 personal award, the foundation said in a news release.

Katrina Survivors Fight Murphy Oil Permit for More Pollution & More Tanks After Disaster Insult to Injury - Murphy Oil - Gasoline you buy at Walmart

MEXICO

Obtienen muestras de aire en zonas de industrias contaminantes Diaro del Istmo February 20th, 2007 New Mexico Bucket Brigade activity! Article in Spanish

Extenderá 'Brigada de Cubetas' monitoreo en la zona by Graciela Gómez, El Liberal del Sur February 20th, 2007 New bucket brigade activity in Mexico!! Article in Spanish. Extenderá 'Brigada de Cubetas' monitoreo en la zona

Bucket Brigade detects high levels of carcinogenic benzene in Southern Veracruz February 19th, 2007 Air samples taken by community bucket brigades in partnership with Apetac, Global Community Monitor, and Greenpeace showed alarming levels of toxic substances in the populations of Minatitlan, Coatzacoalcos and Mundo Nuevo.

OHIO

Coal Ash Spill Disaster: Environmentalists question fly ash cloud - prepare to test the air themselves "We're working with the Tennessee Coal Ash Survivors Network in order to get local residents trained in how to identify when there are dust storms occurring and being trained in order to use the air monitoring equipment," Landon says

Don't miss USA Today on the first hour of the Today Show for a series focusing on the impacts of toxic pollution and school children. For the past 6 months, Global Community Monitor and partner community groups have been working with reporters to tell the stories of how school children are adversely impacted by toxic pollution.

PENNSYLVANIA

NORTHEASTERN US

NEW ORDINANCE: Train riders may be boarding at roundhouse in Rockland, Maine: "The city finds that allowing such locomotives to idle in the midst of a heavily settled residential area is a danger to the health of the surrounding residents, based upon the experience of the citizens affected by the exhaust"

Rockland, Maine: First Community AIr Tests of Toxic Train Lab results from testing conducted last month by the citizen’s group Clean Air for Rockland indicates that their neighborhood is indeed at risk due to high levels of formaldehyde.

Clean Air for Rockland, others launch community air checks ROCKLAND (Aug 23): Clean Air for Rockland has joined with other Maine community groups to launch community air monitoring in toxic hot spots. For the first time, community members will test the air they breathe, the citizen group said in a press release.

NEW YORK

NEW YORK: After evidence from Bucket Brigade, EPA raids Tonawanda Coke Residents of Tonawanda, NY received welcome news this week of action being taken by the EPA against Tonawanda Coke Co.