The Region - News from Jan. 8, 1987
Garb Oil & Power Co. of Salt Lake City won a permit to begin construction of a controversial waste-to-energy plant that will burn scrapped tires in the San Bernardino County city of Rialto. The permit to build the 35-megawatt plant was issued by a South Coast Air Quality Management District hearing board, which heard testimony over a three-month period concerning the project’s safety. Garb Oil officials may still face a court battle with city and county officials in Riverside and San Bernardino who have threatened to file a lawsuit to stop the project. They say that the plant will dump dangerous toxic chemicals into their already smoggy skies.
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