Activists have objected to plans to move a controversial metal shredder from Lincoln Park to a largely Latino community on the Southeast Side already overburdened with pollution.
, after President Joe Biden’s top environmental official told her in a letter that he has major reservations about the car shredding plant moving to the Southeast Side, raising civil rights concerns about the move from a predominantly white neighborhood to a mostly Latino community already overburdened with pollution.
with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and Chicago health inspectors for emitting toxic fluff and excessive air emissions. For years neighbors of General Iron’s scrap yard in Lincoln Park had called the plant an environmental dumping ground. Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez , Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez and Cook County Commissioner Bridget Dengen plan to join protesters outside the mayor’s office on Wednesday, calling on her to deny that permit, accusing the Lightfoot administration of a lack of transparency and community engagement in the permit approval process.In order to relocate General Iron needs a permit, but Lightfoot is holding off on making any decision until an environmental study is completed.
The Chicago Department of Public Health, which is reviewing the permit application, held a final community engagement session Tuesday night, but it’s unclear how soon CDPH will decide on the permit.against the city, accusing Lightfoot of breaking an agreement to help the company move its operation from Lincoln Park to the Southeast Side.
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