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Calif. City Buys, Shutters Asphalt Factory After Years of Odor Complaints

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English - November 20, 2023 22:00 - 2 minutes - 1.91 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Residents of an Irvine, California neighborhood are breathing a sigh of relief after finally reaching a conclusion to years of contentious debate over a factory.

All American Asphalt set up shop in 1993 in an area described by local news organization Voice of OC as having “nothing around it.” But as the years went by and more of the adjacent land was developed with housing, along with it came controversy.

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