This change in focus led Bradley Angel to leave Greenpeace, and form GreenAction to serve local communities and their fight against toxic wastes.
Greenaction aims to mobilize community power to achieve goals that may adjust or create policies to protect everyone's health and promote environmental, economic and social justice.
[6] A main mission is to stop primary polluters and hold them accountable for their actions stemming from the government and big corporations that may be negatively affecting our health.
Their guiding principles, as stated by them are: Kettleman City is located in Kings County, CA and has been a defining struggle for the Environmental Justice Movement.
[12][13] In the early 1990s, through active protests by residents and environmental groups, the community convinced the local government to decline permits for the new incinerator.
This naval shipyard, which was abandoned by the navy in 1974, is contaminated with fuels, pesticides, heavy metals, PCBs, Volatile Organic Compounds, radioactive materials, and naturally-occurring asbestos.
[19] Greenaction is fighting to ensure that a full cleanup of the naval shipyard is done properly, which will confirm the well-being of the public, the environment, and prohibit the government from just placing a cap on the contamination.
[20] The Huntersville Mothers Society was then also able to stop PG&E from dumping hazardous PCB contaminated soil in a landfill near Kettleman City, an area that is already greatly affected by industrial pollution.
With their help and perseverance, Greenaction celebrates the 113-day stand that was made by native tribes and allies that resulted in the defeat of the proposed nuclear dump.
[22] Other indigenous land campaigns: Greenaction has been working to fight the Avenal Energy fossil fuel plant that was proposed in California.
As planned, this fossil fuel plant in the city of Avenal would be 600 megawatts and would use natural gas that emits a wide range of toxic and climate change pollutants.
Working with members of the Ute tribe and local community of Blanding, Utah to stop the expansion of the Denison Mines White Mesa Uranium Mill.
In the end, Greenaction was able to get nine businesses to sign "Good Neighbor Agreements," meaning that they will follow all anti-idling laws and continue to educate workers on the impacts of idling and unhealthy diesel emissions.