South Side community organizations were told this week that federal environmental officials will not open another civil rights investigation related to the proposed relocation of the junked-car and metal-shredding operation General Iron.
The groups hoped that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would investigate whether Southeast Side residents’ civil rights were violated by the city for its role in the planned move of a polluting business — shut down in mostly white, affluent Lincoln Park at the end of 2020 — to the Latino-majority community area East Side.
