For more than a century, manufacturing plants and salvage yards have lined the banks of the Calumet River on Chicago's Southeast Side, spewing out industrial pollutants into the largely Latino neighborhood. Now, a coalition of residents is pushing back after a scrap metal plant that abandoned its longtime home in Chicago's affluent North Side proposed to reopen along the Calumet — a move that has sparked protests and a legal battle with the city, as well as reignited criticism that access to a cleaner environment for vulnerable communities of color is being sacrificed in favor of industry. | 
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