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When I learned the city of Dallas had pulled the certificate of occupancy for Blue Star Recycling's asphalt shingle operation along South Central Expressway, otherwise known as Shingle Mountain ...
The 60-foot-tall asphalt mountain is an absurdist monument to ... Since late last year, Shingle Mountain has appeared regularly in the Dallas Morning News’ Metro section and on nightly TV ...
Shingle Mountain’s dust, which contains carcinogens like asphalt fumes ... Jackson has lived at her home in southern Dallas for 25 years. (Deep Indigo Collective) Jackson has been trying ...
Dallas City Hall likewise said nothing for a year as a mound grew into a hill morphed into a mountain ... ground-up material when it was reduced to asphalt. But when Blue Star saw the mess ...
DALLAS — The yearslong fight to change policies that neighbors argued allowed part of southern Dallas to become a dumping ground for tons of shingles and roof debris – known as Shingle ...
The six-year fight to change city policies that allowed a southern Dallas community to become the dumping ground for roofing debris — infamously known as ‘Shingle Mountain’ — is over.
The harsh smell came from the GAF asphalt shingle factory ... where Shingle Mountain was erected, is also trying to get a land use plan adopted by Dallas to prevent another environmental disaster.
Breathing dust from crushed asphalt shingles “may cause ... sites emit pollution in Black and Latino Dallas. The district where Shingle Mountain sits has the highest levels of particulate ...
City staffers on Wednesday morning returned to Shingle Mountain, which continues to swell behind two homes in that part of Dallas where ... shingles and fine-ground asphalt have become in recent ...
A Texas law could turn a long-awaited zoning victory for residents in Southern Dallas into a legal and ... and health risks posed by Shingle Mountain, a towering heap of illegal roofing debris ...
“Shingle Mountain wouldn’t have happened if ... Another example: Residents in West Dallas say the GAF asphalt factory located a block away from their homes is polluting their air.