Penny Newman (born May 30, 1947) is an environmentalist, a community organizer, and the former director of th
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ)in
Riverside County, California. She is best known for her advocacy work on the
Stringfellow Acid Pits
The Stringfellow Acid Pits are a toxic waste dump, and a Superfund site, located in Jurupa Valley, California, United States, just north of the neighborhood of Glen Avon. The site became the center of national news coverage in the early 1980s, ...
, a toxic waste disposal site located in the community of
Glen Avon (now incorporated into the City of
Jurupa Valley, California
Jurupa Valley ( Serrano: ''Hurumpa'') is a city in the northwest corner of Riverside County, California. It was the location of one of the earliest non-native settlements in the county, Rancho Jurupa. The Rancho was initially an outpost of the ...
), that led to new state and federal rules regarding how toxic waste is disposed.
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Jurupa Valley, California
People from Riverside County, California
People from San Bernardino County, California
American environmentalists
American women environmentalists
1947 births
Living people
21st-century American women
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