As a child growing up in central New York, Bonita Siegel watched a major infrastructure project reshape the region in the 1960s. Most people cheered the Rust Belt city’s development. Decades later, Siegel wasn’t so sure.
Lawsuit over Micron’s massive Syracuse project raises concerns about toxic risks and alleges a rushed environmental review.
Lawsuit over Micron’s massive Syracuse project raises concerns about toxic risks and alleges a rushed environmental review.
A new coalition launched just days after Micron's groundbreaking in Clay, New York to ensure the company is held accountable to their commitments.
A new coalition of community organizations and environmental experts is calling on Micron to ensure Central New Yorkers see a return on the 20 billion dollars in taxpayer subsidies for the project.
Contact: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JMA: Lauren LaBorde llaborde@jobstomoveamerica.org Coalition
Activists are demanding a way to hold the memory-chip maker accountable to its promises to protect the environment and embrace communities of color in central New York.
Micron broke ground last week on its massive semiconductor chip-making facility in Onondaga County. But as work gets underway to clear trees from hundreds of acres of land in the Town of Clay, a lawsuit says the environmental review was
Neighbors for a Better Micron, an association of local residents, and the advocacy organization, Jobs to Move America (JMA), have filed a lawsuit in New York State Court to address what residents and organizations say are serious, unresolved concerns about the potential environmental, health and community impacts of the company’s planned semiconductor manufacturing facility outside of Syracuse and ensure that there are robust economic benefits for the local community.
An advocacy group known as Jobs to Move America and a group of local residents have filed a lawsuit in New York State Court to try to block the construction of Micron Technology’s Facility in Clay, New York.
