Two 80-year-old asphalt shingle factories still operate in Central Dallas: GAF in West Dallas and TAMKO in Joppa.

Both are 80 years old.

Both factories operate in Black and Brown neighborhoods because of racist zoning.

Both factories are among the city’s largest industrial air polluters.

Both factories have no modern scrubbers to control their sulfur dioxide pollution emissions.

Both factories are classified as “non-conforming” businesses, meaning they should be targeted for closure.

Both have decades of public nuisance complaints.

Both factories are owned by wealthy, out-of-town families profiting from the poisoning of Black and Brown Dallas residents.

That's why they are Dallas’s Toxic Twins.

Join us in pushing the City to do the right thing.

GAF and TAMKO have been polluting West Dallas and Joppa for too long. Despite Joppa and the Singleton Corridor comprising only 0.15% of the population of Dallas, the majority of whom identify as Black or Brown, nearly 10.5% of Dallas' industrial pollution is dumped on these two neighborhoods (TCEQ 2022 Annual Emissions Report). This is a dictionary example of environmental injustice, describing disproportionate exposure to environmental pollution in low-income, Black, or Brown communities.

A Texas A&M health study found asthma rates 2 to 3 times higher in Joppa than Dallas County or Texas averages. A similar health study is in the works for West Dallas. As we await results, asphalt continues to rain on West Dallas residents from GAF smokestacks.

With neighbors having no protections from legal or illegal industrial polluters, we must rise together to protect neighborhood self-determination and the right to breathe clean air.