CAMDEN – Despite angry protests from city residents and community activists, City Council members on Tuesday evening unanimously approved an agreement with EMR (USA Holdings) Inc.

Heavy smoke from a fire at EMR’s scrapyard, sparked by a damaged lithium-ion battery, in February sent residents fleeing from their neighborhood because of poor air quality.

A memorandum of understanding written in the fire’s aftermath and after meetings with concerned residents requires EMR to donate $3,250,000 to benefit city residents, donate a small fire truck to the city and spend millions to reconfigure its scrap operations at Ferry and Atlantic Streets.

“EMR has been harming the residents of Camden for a long, long time,” Joe Bouvier of Merchantville and a member of the South Jersey Progressive Democra

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