BREAKING NEWS: Chicago Department of Public Health denies operating permit for Southside Recycling, a controversial metal shredding facility on the Southeast Side, as an 'unacceptable risk' to neighboring community.
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.
Officials said an eight-month Health Impact Assessment recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found the Southeast Side already has among the highest rates of chronic conditions such as coronary heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among Chicago adults, and rank among the most vulnerable populations in Chicago to air pollution, based on underlying health and social conditions.
The city also cited a lengthy history of pollution problems at RMG’s old General Iron scrap yard in Lincoln Park, which RMG shut down at the end of 2020 as it prepared to relocate the operation to the Southeast Side, under the new name Southside Recycling.
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