The Margin - The Margin

Story Locations Near EMR
  • EMR facilities
  • Industrial polluters
  • Sensitive receptors
  • Neighborhood assets
  • Capped Superfund sites
  • Resident source area
Low Income: % of residents in households earning no more than twice the federal poverty level
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100%
  • Uninhabited
People of Color: % of residents who are people of color
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100%
  • Uninhabited

Since 2020, EMR’s five facilities in Camden’s Waterfront South neighborhood have had 14 major fires, according to state environmental records.

Their industrial operations span an area the size of roughly 36 football fields, where, according to U.S. Census Bureau data, about a third live below the federal poverty level, which is currently just under $16,000 per year for an individual...

...and more than half of residents are Black, roughly one third are Hispanic or Latino.