A Canadian-owned waste oil reclamation company wants to reopen — and expand — a year after a fire shut down its eastside facility. But residents of Detroit’s Conner Creek neighborhood report improved air quality and conditions across the community following the plant’s closure.
Since its inception in 2012, Aevitas Specialty Services Corp. has received 64 air complaint investigations from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), with 17 investigations occurring between 2024 and 2025 alone.
Aevitas has received five violation notices from EGLE’s Air Quality Division since 2016, four of which concerned “persistent and objectionable odors of moderate to strong intensity impacting areas downwind of the facility,” according to EGLE documents…