Thank you for visiting the Clean Air Athens website. We are for good clean jobs, not jobs that endanger our health and our children's health .
Have a clean air issue and want to organize Athenians? This web site could be yours! Contact info@cleanairathens.org
Between 2004 and 2008, we organized the citizens of Athens-Clarke and surrounding counties to make two local polluting industrial facilities clean up their acts. Through the efforts of many people we showed that citizens organized to protect their community can make a difference.
- Stop CertainTeed Corporation from increasing its already-too-high toxic air emissions. No net increase. VICTORY 2009! Read here
- Make Nakanishi switch to a non-cancer-causing solvent immediately. (TCE has been phased out elsewhere because it is so toxic.) VICTORY 2007! Read here
Our long-term goal is to see that the Precautionary Principle is adopted locally so that these kinds of things do not recur. We need to heed early warnings, shift the burden of proof to polluters when potential harm is likely, seek healthy alternatives, and include affected stakeholders in deciding what risk is acceptable.
