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ELPC’s Northwest Indiana Air, Parks, and Water Protector Project is making progress on many fronts. In the case against Fulcrum Centerpoint’s proposed garbage-to-jet fuel facility in Gary, it became clear this month that the company has been talking a lot of hot air. Fulcrum defaulted on its bonds at its Sierra, Nevada location and put its Gary plan to issue $500 million in tax-exempt bonds on hold. As GARD member Carolyn McCrady said, whenever Gary residents have “questioned the feasibility of this project… Fulcrum has said we should look to its Sierra plant as a successful example… Well now we know. They have not produced fuel at scale and cannot pay back their investors. This is just an ill-gotten venture that is bad for Indiana taxpayers and should be abandoned.”
ELPC serves as a watchdog for proposed industry and existing facilities as well. We’re calling on the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to enact stronger water standards at Cleveland-Cliffs’ East Chicago facilities, in order to protect clean water in Lake Michigan. We’re working with the Environmental Integrity Project to submit detailed comments, gathering emails from everyday Hoosiers, and calling on IDEM for more time for public comment as well.
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