A grass-roots environmental group emerged to take on the millionaire dump owner, replete with a fleet of expensive cars and a house in the Caribbean. The owner's response was to organize his truck drivers to threaten and intimidate the woman leader of the grassroots group. After numerous public meetings and a march on the landfill, this courageous woman was publicly ridiculed, threatened, and had her phone tapped. This had a major negative impact on the local educational system. The landfill owner has made the most of the legal loopholes in the Superfund Act to make his millions elsewhere.
Environmental struggles are part and parcel of the class struggle.
The more environmentalists and labor activists unite in struggle, the less likely workers will be misled and the more enduring the victories, both in the community and the shop floor. Environmentalists around the journal WildEarth, including Earth First adherents, have put forward a bold proposal. It would allow for the recovery of whole ecosystems throughout the continent from Panama to Alaska to Greenland. Workshops are being held across the country to adjust the proposal to regional circumstances. This project is immense in scope and would take years to complete, and would be a very labor intensive project.