For decades the Ironbound Community Corp. has been fighting for Newark’s immigrant, multiethnic, multiracial, LGBTQ community in the Ironbound, where a fourth power plant is expected to be built. LGBTQ environmental activists are pushing back. Environmental justice organizers in Newark’s Ironbound believe that environmental justice is an LGBTQ issue. Like access to marriage, reproductive autonomy, and healthcare, they say climate change and pollution affect LGBTQ community members and intersectional communities disproportionately due to discrimination. “LGBTQ+ individuals are no strangers to the challenges faced by marginalized communities and often lead the fight against environmental injustices,” Chloe Desir, environmental justice organizer for the ICC, said. Desir is a member of the LGBTQ community, too.