A clout-heavy scrap shredder should be allowed to begin operating on Chicago's heavily polluted Southeast Side, an administrative law judge ruled Thursday in a decision that scrapped one of former Mayor Lori Lightfoot's key overtures to the environmental justice movement.The ruling by Administrative Judge Mitchell Ex noted that a consultant hired by the city had concluded Reserve Management Group's shredder would not pose unacceptable cancer risks - defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as more than one case per million people during a lifetime.
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