A judge ruled Thursday that a clout-heavy scrap shredder should be allowed to begin operating on Chicago’s heavily polluted Southeast Side, a decision that overturns one of former Mayor Lightfoot’s key overtures to the environmental justice movement.
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A clout-heavy scrap shredder should be allowed to begin operating on Chicago’s heavily polluted Southeast Side, an administrative law judge ruled Thursday in a decision that scrapped one of former Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s key overtures to the environmental justice movement. The ruling by Administrative Judge Mitchell Ex noted that a consultant hired by the city had concluded Reserve Management Group’s shredder
— defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as more than one case per million people during a lifetime.Nor would the shredder increase the risk of other health problems, the city’s consultant said. Ohio-based RMG obtained all but one of the permits and zoning decisions it needed until a top lieutenant to President Joe Biden urged Lightfoot to consider how existing pollution problems on the Southeast Side “epitomize the problem of environmental injustice.
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