Black Residents Want This Company Gone. Will Alabama’s Environmental Agency Approve a New Permit?

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In the historic Africatown community, residents say an asphalt plant has turned life on Chin Street into a living hell for 25 years. When the state’s Department of Environmental Management held a hearing in February to consider a permit renewal, they saw an opportunity.

By Patrick Darrington

MOBILE, Ala.—Walter Moorer likes to say he lives at 411 “Death Row Street.” At least that is what he compares his living conditions to as he is bombarded with the stench, pollution, noise and dust that emanates from an asphalt plant owned by Hosea Weaver and Sons Inc.

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Black Residents Want This Company Gone. Will Alabama’s Environmental Agency Approve a New Permit?

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