Black Residents Want This Company Gone. Will Alabama's Environmental Agency Approve a New Permit?

In the historic Africatown community, residents say an asphalt plant has turned life on Chin Street into a living hell for 25 years. When the state’s Department of Environmental Management held a hearing in February to consider a permit renewal, they saw an opportunity.

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