Bucket Brigade

BREAKING BUCKET BRIGADE NEWS:

• FIRST AIR TEST FOR TOXIC CONTAMINATION IN MEXICO SHOWS DANGEROUS CHEMICALS IN EVERY BREATHE TAKEN BY PEMEX NEIGHBORS Read more...
• First Bucket Brigades Launched in Australia - January 2006:
  Residents resort to own air testing to take on Corporate Giants: Shell Oil and ALCOA Aluminum Read more...
• Soot sleuths; Volunteers monitor industrial plant emissions
  12/31/2005
  OCALA - For decades, residents in a northwest Ocala neighborhood feared their concerns about pollution from nearby industrial sites too often fell on deaf ears.

  So they recently decided to track the pollution themselves with old-fashioned observation skills and by using household items like paper plates and bed sheets to mimic more expensive, sophisticated equipment to gather evidence on the emissions and particles that the Royal Oak charcoal plant and other industrial sites near their homes spouted into the air. Late last month, they launched the Northwest Ocala Bucket Brigade, a local link in a national chain of neighborhood organizations formed to monitor pollution. Read more...

• Valero Refinery Busted by Real Time Monitor - Corpus Christi, TX
  11/15/2005
  
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• Sunoco settles pollution suit
  Thu, Nov. 10, 2005
  A Southwest Philadelphia community group reached a settlement with Sunoco Inc. over alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act at Sunoco's Philadelphia oil refinery. Read more...