Maria Lopez-Nunez, deputy director of the Ironbound Community Corporation, speaks on Jan. 11, 2022 outside a sewage treatment plant in Newark N.J.where a proposed backup power plant is drawing strenuous opposition from residents who say their neighborhood is already overburdened with polluting facilities, including two other power plants. On April 17, 2023, New Jersey's environmental justice law, designed to prevent communities like Newark that already deal with serious pollution from having to accept additional sources of it, took effect. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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