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New Jersey environmental justice law won't block power plant hotly fought by Newark residents
NEWARK, N.J. — For nearly four years, residents of Newark's Ironbound section, a gritty, industrial neighborhood near an airport and surrounded by train tracks and many smelly sources of air pollution, had hoped an environmental justice law aimed at …