Leaders of Chicago's environmental justice movement are confident Mayor Johnson has their backs – and they won’t have to fight the businesses they blame causing high rates of respiratory ailments, asthma and more by polluting the air they breathe.
Activists protest plans for a metal scrapper on Chicago's Southeast Side at City Hall on Tuesday, June 6, 2023.
Cheryl Johnson, the executive director of People for Community Recovery, said the administrative law judge’s ruling was a “slap of injustice” after “the city finally decided to get it right” and deny the permit for the metal shredder. But unlike in years past, Bautista, Ramirez and other leaders in the environmental justice movement are confident Chicago's new mayor will stand shoulder to shoulder with them and they won’t have to fight City Hall as well as the businesses that they blame for causing high rates of cancer, heart disease, respiratory ailments and asthma with pollution.
Gina Ramirez, the Midwest outreach manager for the Natural Resources Defense Council, denounces plans for a metal scrapper on Chicago's Southeast Side at City Hall on Tuesday, June 6, 2021.
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