Sign this petition if you agree that companies should not be doing semiconductor manufacturing less than 500 ft from thousands of apartments, two public parks, and a children's playground.

In this case, Apple is running a chip fab at a plant next to the Santa Clara Square Apartments, Meadow Park, Creekside Park, restaurants, and a Whole Foods. The property owner knows and allows it. The city of Santa Clara knows and approved it, but also concealed it and failed to disclose it to exposed and injured residents for years. 

On Oct. 27 2025, US EPA entered a Consent Agreement & Final Order with Apple over some of the hazardous waste violations from Aug. 2023 and Jan. 2024. View the EPA Docket here: In re Apple, Inc., US EPA Docket No. RCRA-09-2026-0006. 

The Citizen Suit lawsuit was filed on Sept. 2 2025. (Gjovik v. Apple Inc, City of Santa Clara, Khalil Jenab; 5:25-cv-07360, District Court, N.D. California).  Read the Citizen Suit Complaint here. There is a Citizen Suit litigation fund on GoFundMe.

News Coverage: 

• HazMat Magazine, U.S. EPA Settles with Apple Inc. Facility for Inadequate Hazardous Waste Management, Nov. 19 2025.
• KRON 4 SF Bay Area, EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory, Nov. 19 2025.
• SF Chronicle, Apple settles with EPA after whistleblower tip on toxic waste dumping in California, Nov. 18 2025.
• US EPA, EPA Takes Action Against Apple for Inadequate Hazardous Waste Management, Nov. 18 2025.
• SFGate, Apple slapped with $261K fine over controversial Bay Area industrial site, Nov. 6 2025. 

Apple executives are illegally operating a semiconductor manufacturing and fabrication facility next to a residential housing complex, senior care center, grocery store, and public playground. Apple reported releasing toxic chemicals like benzene, mercury, carbon monoxide, and formaldehyde into the air; but city records show even more chemical spills and leaks that were never reported to the community (including deadly phosphine, silane, and fluorine gases). (More information's at the 3250 Scott site).

The US EPA inspected Apple's plant in 2023 and found extensive hazardous waste violations. In June 2025, US EPA notified Apple they plan to take enforcement action against them over their hazardous waste operations at the plant. In addition, the Bay Area Air Quality Board has also cited Apple for air pollution and operating without air pollution permits at the plant.

The plant never went through the normal permitting process or environmental studies, and the City of Santa Clara covered-up reports of illness from multiple residents next to the plant. Multiple people reported chemical exposure health issues to the government starting in at least 2021, and the city did nothing.

One resident, Ashley Gjovik, has active civil claims against Apple over employment retaliation due to her reporting Apple's hazardous waste emissions in 2020-2021. On June 30 2025, Gjovik also gave notice to US EPA, Apple, city of Santa Clara, and the property owner of an incoming Citizen Suit under five environmental statutes. Gjovik's sixty-day notice also includes notice of a public nuisance claim against all three parties and intention to request the court to shut down the plant until it can come into compliance with environmental, health, & safety laws. [The suit was filed 9/2/25].

As of today, the plant continues to operate and risk the health and safety of everyone inside and around it.

We're meeting on 8/16/25 on the public sidewalks next to the plant to protest the existence of this plant creating and releasing hazardous waste next to homes and parks, and to demand that the city order the plant to stop operations. Meet us there (and bring an N95 in case Apple is exhausting more pollution into the air)!

Enough Is enough. Stop poisoning residents, public spaces, & workers near the Apple plant!

EVENT: Sat, Aug 16, 2025 12:00pm - 2:00pm | US/Pacific

Press Conference and Rally to Protest Apple's deadly, illegal semiconductor fabrication at a secret facility next to a huge apartment complex, public parks, and children's playgrounds.

Location:  public sidewalks and parks next to the Apple Inc. semiconductor chip fabrication plant in Santa Clara (3250 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara, CA).

Watch the press conference here: https://youtu.be/TeHOyevjtuw

Guest Speakers:
Ashley Gjovik (virtual)
Steve Zeltzer (on site)

Endorsed By:
Whistler Blowers United (WBU)
California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day
WorkWeek, United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCLP

Listed By:
IndyBay South Bay
San Jose Peace & Justice Center 

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