West Dallas residents have long complained about smell and air quality from this shingle factory.
But those complaints got nowhere until one woman started a campaign that shows anyone how to take on an environmental nuisance and win.
"It was always in the background. It's always been in the background," Cisneros, founder of GAFs Gotta Go said."The burnt rubber smell, the burnt asphalt smell, the rotten egg smell." "We live next door to a mega polluter and in order for us to have a cleaner environment, a healthier environment, we have to remove what's hurting us what's harming us," Cisneros said.Today, the 80-year-old company announced in a statement that it would shut down over the next seven years and relocate its 150 employees.
It no longer fits in a neighborhood where new residential developments are creeping closer to factories that were once miles away.
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