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Justice-owned company to pay nearly $1 million for chronic air pollution violations

This story was originally published by ProPublica. The owner of one of Birmingham, Alabama’s oldest industrial plants has agreed to pay a nearly $1 million fine after releasing excessive amounts of toxic air pollution into nearby historic Black neighborhoods, according to a proposed consent decree filed Friday in a Jefferson County court. If the consent […]