Report guidelines, stuff I cut from the google doc



THE SIERRA CLUB GRASSROOTS NETWORK

YEAR-END GRANT REPORT

01/01/2014 – 12/31/2014

Your Team: Clean Air Team

Your Name: Marti Sinclair

Your Contact Info:

Email kiri45240@

Telephone 513.674.1983

Total Grant Funds Received in 2014: $7,000

I. GOAL AND PROSPECTIVE OUTCOMES

Conservation Goal:

Our ongoing work is aimed at reducing air pollutants, especially

• Air pollutants that pose the greatest risk to communities.

• Air pollutants or polluters contributing to climate disruption.

• Air pollutants that threaten environmental justice communities.

Conservation Outcome: We had many successful litigation efforts and we engaged EPA at a number of levels.

Organizational Goal:

Revamp our outreach efforts to Group and Chapter air activists. We proposed a newsletter composite of stories on clean air work from group and chapter newsletters.

Organizational Outcome:

We have produced an outreach product entitled Primer for Clean Air Activists, Advocates & Agitators. We are now planning the publicity phase.

II. MOST SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENT

Describe in one concise paragraph your most significant project accomplishment. It is important to state precisely the Sierra Club’s role in achieving the accomplishment and to explain its significance.

We made significant inroad combatting pollutants that pose the highest risks to natural and human communities, that foster climate disruption, and that pose risks to environmental justice communities. For air pollutants posing the greatest risks, we advanced our agenda to reduce emissions of chromium, a potent carcinogen. We engaged EPA on its emissions standards for the chrome plating industry, which comprises over 1,000 plants. Environmental justice and fossil fuel issues came together in two cases. First, we prevailed in court against EPA’s exemption that had allowed oil refineries (the bane of Cancer Alley) to burn hazardous waste in gasification units without meeting federal hazardous waste safeguards. Second, we prevailed in court when the courts denied an appeal by the polyvinyl chloride industry (a fossil fuel product) to delay compliance with toxic air pollution standards. In more environmental justice news, in complying with a case we won to force EPA to promulgate the rule regulating hazardous waste recycling emissions, EPA included the first-ever thorough analysis of environmental justice and community health impacts by a federal agency.

III. PROGRESS ON OTHER OUTCOMES

Describe other notable project outcomes in a few paragraphs. Describe what you did and how you did it so that an audience with no prior knowledge can understand it (committees are named, acronyms spelled out). State the result of the work, along with its current status at the time of the report.

Our Primer for Clean Air Activists, Advocates & Agitators is posted on the Sierra Club’s Grassroots Network website. The provocatively titled publication is a handbook for volunteer grassroots activists by volunteer grassroots activists.   The Clean Air Team issued the primer to inform and inspire new activists to join us in our fight to clean the air. It includes contact information for our grassroots team, resources on grassroots organizing, tips on fact collecting, and recommendations on what can be done to stop air pollution. Currently, we are developing a plan to advertise and promote the primer to group and chapter conservation leaders and activists.

IV. LOOKING AHEAD

Conclude with a brief paragraph discussing the project’s future direction and upcoming challenges. Explain how the recent accomplishments have prepared you(us) to take advantage of future opportunities.

We continue to take on litigation addressing highly toxic pollutants, the fossil fuel industries, and environmental justice issues. Our long-time ally at Earthjustice, Jim Pew, was awarded the William O. Douglas Award by the Sierra Club this year, a well-deserved recognition for a tireless advocate and supporter. We have brought additional people on board this year, which has helped our team deal with some thorny organizational issues of coordination and communication. Our team – and the Club- are stronger for these joint efforts. We have also reached out to Club members concerning our litigation and have responded to requests from Club members – and others – for information or opinions on various air pollution issues. We have continued our outreach with cement kiln activists nationally. Our proposed outreach program of culling Club newsletter articles on clean air activism proved to be unfeasible. We believe that our outreach publication will prove successful once we have had time to publicize it to groups and chapters.

V. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please feel free to attach any additional information relevant to this project, for example, photos of events held, informational materials produced, links to news stories/media your work generated, etc.

The link for the Clean Air Team’s Primer is

Some of the news releases and news stories concerning our work can be found at:

Communities Call for Stronger Protection from Oil Refineries’ Air Pollution; EPA’s Public Comment Period Ending

Hazardous Waste Recycling Regulations – the Latest Chapter

Protecting Communities from Chrome Plating Facilities

• AIR POLLUTION: EPA battles 3-front legal assault on chrome plating standards

• Oil Refineries Required to Reduce Toxic Pollution into the Air Communities Breathe

EPA Faces Court Challenge Over Solid Waste Loophole

• SIERRA CLUB STATEMENT ON REVISION OF SOLID WASTE RULE: Updated Standard Incorporates Key Environmental Justice Findings But Leaves Loopholes Open

Fenceline Communities Win Relief in Oil Refinery Suit

• Environmental Law Alert - EPA Releases Final Rule To Distinguish Recycled Products From Solid Waste Under RCRA Subtitle C

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