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Nelly Martinez attends a November 2020 protest to demand Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot deny the final permit that will allow General Iron to move from Lincoln Park, a mostly white neighborhood, to the Southeast Side, which has a mostly Latino population.
Pat Nabong | Sun-Times file
It’s mystifying to us why Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who campaigned on a promise to treat all neighborhoods with fairness and equity, would even consider allowing known polluter General Iron to set up shop on the Southeast Side.
But after community protests, a hunger strike and intervention from by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the mayor is now asking a question she could have posed from jump: Is a metal scrapping facility needed in an area of the city already overburdened with a host of environmental issues?
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Newark Residents, 40+ groups call on Gov. Murphy and PVSC to Stop Fracked Gas Power Plant Proposed in Ironbound, Shift to Renewable Energy Plan May 13, 2021, 1:08 pm | in
Newark Residents, 40+ groups call on Gov. Murphy and PVSC to Stop Fracked Gas Power Plant Proposed in Ironbound, Shift to Renewable Energy Plan
Newark residents and a diverse coalition of environmental, faith and social justice organizations called into the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission’s board zoom meeting today to demand the agency stop their plans for a new fracked-gas power plant at their massive sewage processing facility in Newark’s Ironbound community.
I always thought it was a little cruel to call New Jersey the Garden State. We’re famous for our pollution. The state has more Superfund sites than another other, 114, and I grew up near four of them in Newark, a particular nexus for toxic filth. The tap water is often poisonous. Our industrial zone has several waste management and processing plants. Soon, just under 2 miles from my front door here, another plant may rise, where “biosolids” or treated waste, aka poop would be funneled in, heated to 1,500 degrees, and sold as concrete thickener. What the plant, from Aries Clean Technologies, will leave behind in our neighborhood is now the subject of fierce debate.