A New ICL Battery Plant Will Make People Who Are Already Sick Even Sicker

This is a map that is included in the brand new Strategic Land Use Plan adopted by the City's Planning Commission in February 2025.

This map shows CHILDHOOD ASTHMA CLUSTERS.

The process to approve this project was kept hidden from the residents of St. Louis for a reason. We aim to expose the corruption and keep ICL from further harming our community and our environment.

Join us in advocating for justice against corporate pollution and environmental racism in North St. Louis.

This is a chart of the pollution ICL plans to release into our air, water, and children's lungs.

Why would our city's Economic Develpoment Committee want to ADD to the level of pollution in North St. Louis?

Kids in North St. Louis deserve Funding for Schools, Community Programs, Food and Healthcare Resources, NOT a chemical facility!

The inhaler shows the location of the proposed plant that will make the air quality even worse than it already is.

ICL is being given over $200 Million of our tax dollars to open a THIRD St Louis facility in North City.

As you can see, it's worst in the North of St. Louis.

Who is ICL?

Israel Chemicals Limited -or ICL as they’ve tried to rebrand themselves in 2025- is a foreign chemical company that claims to the public to be a “Green” company that creates batteries for electric vehicles, however, upon closer inspection, it’s quickly apparent that they are actually a toxic chemical company with a MULTITUDE of Human Rights and Environmental Violations spanning from St Louis to Palestine.

Let’s take a closer look at their track record:

2022 - Violating the Clean Air Act

2017 - Ashalim Creek Disaster in Occupied Palestine

ICL was formally founded in Tel Aviv in 1968 by settlers after the US government forcefully founded the State of Israel in Palestine.

"A multi-national manufacturing concern that develops, produces and markets fertilizers, metals and other special-purpose chemical products", - and white phosphorus, but we'll dive deeper into that a few pages down.

In 2023, they were declared the worst environmental offenders by Israel’s own Environmental Protection Ministry after the 2017 Ashalim Creek disaster, and were fined $33 million.

In 2022 they violated the Clean Air Act at their South City Carondelet location. According to the EPA Facility Report, this offense has continued at least up until their last visit in July of 2024 .

ICL already has TWO toxic chemical facilities in Carondelet, and now they are

are trying to begin construction on a NEW facility in North City, near the river, within 5 miles of intake ponds that provide ALL of

St Louis with drinking water, and within

2023 - EPA Cancer Risk Report

In 2023 Within a mile of the Carondelet ICL site, the EPA identified unsafe levels of cancer-risking air toxins, hazardous waste, and wastewater discharge.

1 MILE of a historically black residential neighborhood!

A Company Tied to GENOCIDE

SINCE 2020, THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT HAS ORDERED AND PAID FOR over 180,000 lbs of white phosphorus TO BE PRODUCED BY ICL AT THEIR CARONDELET LOCATION, AND SHIPPED VIA THE RIVER TO PINE BLUFF ARKANSAS

FROM BINE BLUFF, THE WHITE PHOSPHORUS IS THEN SHIPPED TO THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES AND USED AGAINST PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS IN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED WAR CRIMES.

White phosphorus is a horrific incendiary weapon that heats up to 1400 degrees F, melts flesh off of bone, and international law bans its use against civilians.

White phosphorus artillery shells with Pine Bluff Arsenal codes were identified in Lebanon and Gaza after the IDF unlawfully used them over residential homes and refugee camps, according to the Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

This Is Not Investment. This Is INJUSTICE.

But don't we need investment?

YES! We do!

And...

This factory is NOT an investment in our community

This Image Is the "Public Version" of the Permit Application ICL Asked the Government to Redact. They didn't hold back

What are they hiding?

They Can't Redact the Pollution. See What We'll Breathe and Drink

Together, we will fight against the environmental disaster posed by ICL's manufacturing plant. Our community deserves better than toxic pollution and corporate greed harming our children and environment.

The only investment ICL is making is in itself

ICL is not paying what it owes to St. Louis

**ICL is getting a 90% tax abatement for 10 years on personal property worth $80 Million, a 15 year tax abatement on real estate taxes, and over $200 million (of our tax dollars) from the federal government to open this new North City site.

**The new facility will only generate around 150 new job, abs ICL has no promise to offer any jobs to neighborhood folk who will get all of the pollution from the plant.

ICL will make pollution, and leave destruction

**Some community investment comes with strings, this money comes with ropes.

Contact Us

If you want more info on how to oppose the invasion of environmentally disastrous corporate greed, and work on getting real investment in our community, send us a message on the form.

Thank you.