Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/, April 11, 2024
By: Paul Schwartzman
For years, neighbors puzzled over the source of a burning stench pervading their blue-collar corner of Northeast Washington. The odor has been foul enough at times that they say they have shut their windows and stayed indoors.
The list of suspected causes in Ivy City — an epicenter in recent years of new condos and fashionable bars and restaurants — has included the heavy traffic coursing through the area, auto body shops, distilleries and the battalions of D.C. school buses and garbage trucks that use the neighborhood as home base.
But residents, along with environmentalists and community advocates, have settled on what they are convinced is the most likely culprit — a manufacturing facility that has operated for 90 years in an easy-to-miss one-story building at the end of a residential street.
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