YOUNGSTOWN A grassroots organization that is fighting a project that would convert chopped-up tires into synthetic gas at a Youngstown steam generating plant will hold a public town hall on Monday to mark the second anniversary of its first meeting about the proposed tire pyrolysis plant. The event is scheduled for 5 p.m. at the Eugenia Atkinson Center, 903 Otis St.

SOBE Concerned Citizens will hold the town hall to address the group's ongoing opposition to SOBE Thermal Energy's plan to expand its steam heating and cooling facility to include a pyrolysis plant. Organizers say the proposed plant would convert pieces of old tires into synthetic gas for use in its boilers. The facility is in a mixed-use community zone near downtown.

Kayshia Washington, a community organizer for SOBE Co

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