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 ...

which would be ground up to make asphalt, according to the city of Dallas. The mountain of shingles, towering at six stories tall, could be seen by drivers half a mile away on Interstate 45.

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 — 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 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 ...

Two years after the removal of Shingle Mountain, a mound of 70,000 tons of asphalt shingles illegally dumped in in the Floral Farms neighborhood of southeast Dallas, residents there continue to ...

The yearslong fight to change policies that neighbors argued allowed part of southern Dallas to become a dumping ground for ...

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 ...

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.

Evelyn Mayo, chair of Downwinders at Risk and a fellow at Paul Quinn College, calls Shingle Mountain a “perfect storm of neglect and racist zoning and land use policy” for Dallas. Earlier this ...