Save The Date: Public Townhall Meeting August 11, 2025

Updates of SOBE Thermal to be given at Public Townhall Meeting

Monday, August 11, 2025

5pm-8pm

Richard W. and Eugenia C. Atkinson Recreation Center

903 Otis St, Youngstown, OH 44510

Event: https://www.facebook.com/share/16fAWniGy7/

SOBE Concerned Citizens, SCC, will be hosting a Public Town Hall Meeting for residents in Youngstown to give updates on our work to keep a pyrolysis plant from coming to Youngstown, and to hear from our panel of expert speakers. Light refreshments will be served.

On August 10, 2023, the Ohio EPA held a public comments meeting where hundreds of Youngstown residents attended, as well as a CAES expert, at the Eugenia Atkinson Recreation Center. With many people expressing their concerns and disapproving of this pyrolysis plant, the Ohio EPA still granted SOBE Thermal Energy Systems, LLC a 10 year air pollution permit.

SCC is working to keep our residents of Youngstown informed, educated, and getting them involved with our continuous push against this. There is a Moratorium Ordinance in place against pyrolysis and gasification in Youngstown, Ohio. This Moratorium will expire on 12/25/2025. We urge our residents to talk, send an email, or write a letter to your city councilman/woman and Mayor Brown to renew the Moratorium Ordinance 24-437.