Why Should Delaware Care?The Port of Wilmington is one of the last anchors of good-paying, blue-collar jobs in Delaware. But its expansion has sparked years of pushback from residents who say a new port terminal could damage their environment and health. Two recent lawsuits from neighbors highlight that the fight over Edgemoor is not yet over.
For years, neighbors of what was once a DuPont chemical plant in Edgemoor watched warily as plans to transform the site into a port container terminal inched forward, buoyed by the political force of thousands of promised jobs.
While state officials saw the project as transformational to Delaware’s economy and to its blue-collar job base, neighbors feared it would bring heavy trucks onto their streets and diesel fumes into the air…