Residents who live around a long standing shingle factory west of downtown Dallas are accusing the operators tonight of trying to back out of a promise to shutdown.
But residents who live around a long standing shingle factory west of downtown are accusing the operators tonight of trying to back out of a promise to shutdown.
Delores Burns lives near the 76-year-old factory on Singleton Boulevard that critics say has been environmentally non-compliant for more than 30 years. A 2020 Paul Quinn College emissions report named GAF as the number one air polluter in Dallas County. got GAF's operators this summer to agreeBut residents say GAF is refusing to budge on a timeline to continue operating for at least another seven years.
Wednesday night's meeting was over GAF's request for a zoning change that its representatives say will not affect its plans to close. "We were supposedly going to have conversations to negotiate an exit plan, but that didn't pan out," said Janie Cisneros, who also lives by the factory. CBS 11 was unable to reach anyone from GAF for comment, but in a previous statement the company has said:
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