The Refinery Reform Campaign is a national campaign seeking to clean up America's oil refineries and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.

What we are doing:

• Organizing refinery communities nation-wide to demand reform of oil refinery operations and regulations
  
  
• Assisting industrial neighbors establish "Bucket Brigades" to test the air they breathe.
  
  
• Providing tools and training for refinery neighbors to document "toxic trespass" of chemicals into their bodies
  
  
• Making the link between pollution and health problems
  
  
• Leadership training, development and RESOURCES for small community-based organizations struggling against major oil companies
  
  
• Research to expose the Bush/Cheney Administration's proposals to rollback clean air protections
  
  
• Linking communities together to build COLLECTIVE POWER against oil companies and their lackies
  
  
• Action to generate effective media, communications and marketing of the refinery reform message

Coordinator:

Denny Larson has 18 years of experience working with refinery communities as an organizer, technical advisor and communications specialist. Denny began his education about refinery neighbors and their plight as a door to door canvasser in 1984 in the San Francisco Bay area's "cancer belt" of Contra Costa County.

In 1994, Larson organized the nation's first national network of oil refinery neighbors, workers and shareholders. In 1995, he developed the "Bucket Brigade" method of air sampling and environmental monitoring for industrial neighbors. In the same year he was appointed by EPA Administrator Carol Browner to a federal panel charged with reinventing refinery regulations.

In 2001, Denny reorganized the national refinery network and formed the Refinery Reform Campaign (RRC). RRC is now a project of the Global Community Monitor/Tides Center. Since then he has continued his work of helping communities start "Bucket Brigades" and other empowerment strategies in order to win environmental justice. Larson has also led a national campaign to stop the rollback of the Clean Air Act.