No flames were visible and the Chicago Fire Department was called “out of an abundance of caution,” according to a statement from Sims.
A scrap-metal recycling facility owned by Sims Metal Management sits on the 2500 block of South Paulina Street on Nov. 2, 2022.
Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, 25th, whose ward includes Pilsen, told the Tribune on Wednesday that the presence of the Sims plant in the neighborhood has left many residents with unanswered questions.“In a community already being burdened by pollution for decades and generations,” Sigcho-Lopez said, “it’s time for us that we demand the community impact study promised by the U.S. EPA and Chicago Department of Public Health.
Pilsen resident Edmundo Diaz, 68, told the Tribune he didn’t know about the weekend fire, but added that smells coming from the plant are not unusual, which makes him uncomfortable. Though neighbors have complained numerous times to the city, he said, nothing has changed.The Sims scrap-metal recycling facility, at 2500 S. Paulina St., sits along the South Branch of the Chicago River.
In September, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency granted Sims a construction permit to enclose its controversial shredder to reduce emissions of particulate matter and volatile organic material from the facility. A week later, the U.S. EPAThe U.S. EPA said the monitoring equipment “did not work as designed” in the early testing results from September.
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