The EPA is requiring Chicago shredding and recycling company to comply with the Clean Air Act. The company needs to reduce air emissions by 98 percent. The EPA recently announced an Administrative Consent Order (ACO) that requires General Iron Industries Inc. to install additional pollution controls that will reduce air emissions at its Chicago facility. The
WTTW's Chicago Tonight New rules for a scrap metal yard on the city’s North Side require the facility to reduce emissions of potentially cancer-causing compounds after it violated federal air pollution standards last summer. General Iron, which plans to move its shredding operation from Lincoln Park to the city’s Southeast Side by 2020, was
Environmental Protection Agency On August 22, 2019, General Iron Industries agreed to an Administrative Consent Order (ACO), that requires General Iron to install additional pollution controls to reduce air emissions at the company’s Chicago facility. The ACO was in response to EPA’s Notice of Violation and Finding of Violation (NOV/FOV), issued to the company
ABC 7 Chicago Residents in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood rallied against a facility that shreds metal. They said General Iron is polluting their community. The 110-year old company is located along the North Branch of the Chicago River near Goose Island. General Iron recently installed a new air filtering system required by the EPA,
WBBM 780 AM / 105.9 FM Lincoln Park residents are demanding regulatory compliance from a metal-shredding facility. "I want to make sure that all of our children all around the community, all around Chicago, don't have to have the impact of this polluter,” Lara Compton said Sunday. "We won't rest until General Iron is
Filtering community anger: A look inside controversial Lincoln Park scrap recycler General Iron ABC 7 Chicago Two days before a planned citizen rally against the century-old metal recycling plant General Iron, the I-Team has been given unprecedented access to its Lincoln Park scrap yard. Watch and read more here.
Chicago is a city of neighborhoods. When City Hall deliberates over a project or enterprise that can profoundly affect a neighborhood, it needs to involve the people who live there. Keep that in mind as you ponder developments regarding a scrap metal recycler in Lincoln Park and its fraught relationship with the 47,500 people
Chicago Tribune During the waning days of former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s time in office, his administration quietly awarded a three-year extension to a clout-heavy scrap shredder with a long history of pollution problems on the city’s North Side. At least three city departments handed out new permits shortly after a member of the family
Crain's Chicago Business Be a good neighbor, not a polluter. Because I live just steps away from General Iron, I know the difference all too well ("A parting gesture from the Emanuel administration along the North Branch," July 1). I feel the effects of the metal shredding and recycling operation on my home, in
Crain's Chicago Business Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration recently granted the family that operates a controversial scrap metal recycling yard along the North Branch of the Chicago River new three-year permits to keep operating there, defying an onslaught of complaints from area residents and ducking an alderman vying to force it out of the neighborhood—who
