Several dozen residents of Spring Valley appeared during a Department of Air Quality permit hearing Monday to protest an asphalt plant being built next to their neighborhoods.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the residents have protested the opening of another plant for more than a year, and said they have already suffered from pollution created by a plant that’s already in operation.
The construction company Wells Cargo owns and operates the current plant at Spring Mountain Road and South Tenaya Way and have planned to open a second facility nearby.
Wells Cargo is currently requesting a permit that would let it produce 560,000 tons of asphalt every year at the second plant.
