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NEW: Detroit's Cadillac Heights used to be a quiet neighborhood. After a historic land swap facilitated by city officials, a billionaire-owned concrete plant moved in. Now residents say they are battling air pollution so thick they can “taste the dust.” with @bridgedet313.bsky.social

propublica.orgLeft in the Dust: How a Billionaire-Owned Concrete Plant Took Over a Detroit CommunityAfter a Moroun-owned company erected a concrete plant in a quiet neighborhood with the aid of the city, residents began battling clouds of dust and other problems. They say local and state officials h...

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The concrete plant in my community has plowed through at least four mountains causing desertification and fucking up the ecosystems in an already weakened landscape. It uses the MOST amount of electricity is the state. I hear it’s being shut down. Thank God.

Did similarly in beautiful Hubbard-Richard and tricked the councilperson and neighborhood association to boot for MORE LAND on 16th Street 💢 😡 💢 #TheMarouns

#DataCenters are just the newest industrial polluters to plow into neighborhoods of lower income or people of color. The only difference is the billlionaires who build data centers see everyone as low income

Concrete dust can cause cancer. This risk is primarily from the crystalline silica and trace elements like hexavalent chromium found in concrete. When concrete is cut, ground, or drilled, these microscopic particles become airborne and are inhaled, leading to a significantly higher risk of cancer.

First the redline neighborhoods, lowering property values. Then they allow polluting business to move in because the affluent whites don’t want them In their neighborhoods. The poorer folks suffer. But hey, unregulated capitalism is so effin’ great!

"Dobson said Crown has invested $10 million in the neighborhood. When asked what that has funded, he cited costs related to the Kronos development: demolishing homes, obtaining permits and equipment to operate..." A mainstream "journalist" would not have asked a follow up. PR, not journalism.

#30million8/30 Patriot - devoted to one's country. Loyalist - devoted to a fucked up authoritarian. Don demands loyalty. As it was in 1776, it is now clear that patriots must defeat loyalist. 30 million street march August 30th. Make your voices heard all over the world.

The Morouns are awful, greedy people. They don't give a shit about the neighborhoods they operate in they just want money. More money. They must be deeply empty people because there's never enough money. The Ambassador bridge has been printing money for them for 100 years but it's NEVER ENOUGH.

Sugar would solve this situation... 5lbs sugar + 2tons of concrete ≠ set concrete 😁 If you can't beat them make them waste the only thing they care about ... 🎶 MONEY!! 💰🤑🎶 *Insert intro to money by pink Floyd

I used tomwork at a cement plant. This is factual. Everything was covered with a layer of dust. There are probably epidemiological studies of lung disease among cement plant workers. The owners of that plant are poisoning their neighbors.