Environmental groups and 10th Ward residents went to court Wednesday to ask a federal judge to prevent an Army Corps of Engineers plan to build a new dump on top of an old dump right next to Lake Michigan.
Sarah SchulteEnvironmental groups and 10th Ward residents went to court Wednesday to ask a federal judge to prevent an Army Corps of Engineers plan to build a new dump on top of an old dump rig"We are surrounded by landfills, we have almost a thousand acres of toxic sites in the 10th Ward," said Samuel Corona, Alliance of the SouthEast.
"The Army Corps, in order to fill its navigation responsibilities, needs to look at a broader set of alternatives, not do business as usual, the same old thing, simply dumping on the southeast side of Chicago," said Howard Lerner, executive director of the Environmental Law and Policy Center.
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