“We want jobs, but we want to understand the impact — socially, economically, environmentally — of what those jobs bring,” said Jerry King, who acted as a neighborhood representative in negotiations between city officials and Fiat Chrysler to bring the plant to the area. “In a community that’s already heavily industrialized with a high concentration of asthma and hospitalization from asthma in adults and children, is that really the better thing?”

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