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Bucket Brigade Summary:

Do you want to know how to find out what you are breathing and if there is a link between pollution and health problems?

The "Bucket Brigade" is a simple, but effective, tool that dozens of communities are using to find out for themselves what chemicals are in the air. Armed with their own data and information about the health effects of chemicals, these communities are winning impressive reductions of pollution, safety improvements and increasing enforcement of environmental laws.

The "Bucket Brigade" is named for a easy to use air sampling device housed inside a 5 gallon plastic bucket. The "Bucket" was developed in Northern California in 1995 by an environmental engineering firm in order to simplify and reduce the costs of widely accepted methods used for testing toxic gases in the air. Denny Larson, formed the Refinery Reform Campaign in 2001, helped to develop the buckets and has worked with many communities on establishing successful air testing programs.

LVEJO was fortunate to have Denny come out to Chicago in 1999 and host a Training for ten community residents.

LVEJO volunteers then went out and used the buckets in the campaigns against Meyer Steel Drum, H. Kramer, and the Coal Power Plants with volunteers from Juarez, Pilsen, Little Village and other communities.

LVEJO can help your community start a Bucket Brigade to find out what you are breathing and fight back for clean air.



	LVEJO'S Bucket Brigade Summary	Bucket Brigade Home Page Cleaner Air / Bucket Brigade Summary: Bucket Brigade Summary: Do you want to know how to find out what you are breathing and if there is a link between pollution and health problems? The "Bucket Brigade" is a simple, but effective, tool that dozens of communities are using to find out for themselves what chemicals are in the air. Armed with their own data and information about the health effects of chemicals, these communities are winning impressive reductions of pollution, safety improvements and increasing enforcement of environmental laws. The "Bucket Brigade" is named for a easy to use air sampling device housed inside a 5 gallon plastic bucket. The "Bucket" was developed in Northern California in 1995 by an environmental engineering firm in order to simplify and reduce the costs of widely accepted methods used for testing toxic gases in the air. Denny Larson, formed the Refinery Reform Campaign in 2001, helped to develop the buckets and has worked with many communities on establishing successful air testing programs. LVEJO was fortunate to have Denny come out to Chicago in 1999 and host a Training for ten community residents. LVEJO volunteers then went out and used the buckets in the campaigns against Meyer Steel Drum, H. Kramer, and the Coal Power Plants with volunteers from Juarez, Pilsen, Little Village and other communities. LVEJO can help your community start a Bucket Brigade to find out what you are breathing and fight back for clean air.
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