Detroit’s east side is home to some of the city’s most densely concentrated heavy-industrial and hazardous-waste operations. Facilities such as Aevitas Specialty Services and Clean Earth (formerly Petro-Chem) operate within a few blocks of homes, schools, and churches, alongside scrap-metal and wastewater sites like GLWA’s Conner Creek Facility. Together, they form an industrial corridor that state and federal screening tools identify as a high-risk proximity cluster—a concentration of major emission sources in a majority-Black, historically under-invested area (MiEJScreen Map | EPA EJScreen).

These facilities perform functions the region relies on: recycling used oil, treating hazardous wastes, processing scrap, and handling industrial by-products. Yet the cost of this concentration has been borne primarily by nearby residents. Both MiEJScreen and EPA EJScreen show that census tracts around Lycaste, St. Jean, and Conner Creek rank above the 90th percentile statewide for fine-particulate pollution (PM2.5), diesel emissions, and toxic releases to air (EGLE 2025 Ambient Air Monitoring Network Review).

Public-health data reinforce the disparity. The City Health Dashboard reports Detroit life expectancy in the low 70s, compared with roughly 78 years statewide (CDC U.S. Life Tables), a gap of about six years—and even wider in predominantly Black neighborhoods (Brookings Analysis).

These profile pages compile publicly verified information about the east-side industrial sites with repeated compliance or enforcement histories. Each summary draws directly from Michigan EGLE and U.S. EPA records, including violation notices, consent orders, and environmental-justice screening results, to give residents a transparent look at the facilities shaping the air and water where they live.