Newark’s Ironbound – a predominantly low-income, immigrant and people-of color-community – is inflicted with daily industrial pollution, resulting in one in four children developing asthma.

In addition, extreme weather events such as hurricanes Ida and Sandy have caused severe flooding and power outages in Newark.

Communities like the Ironbound face a double burden. They are disproportionately impacted by pollution and climate change, while also being asked to pay for remediation and to host new polluting infrastructure. Such is the case with Newark’s pending fourth gas power plant at the sewage treatment facility on Wilson Avenue near Doremus Avenue, which is a one-mile stretch nicknamed “Chemical Corridor.”

But these polluted and overburdened neighborhoods are also leading the way

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