Gone are the prosperous days in Rochester and surrounding towns thanks to the “greenies”. Industry is almost non-existent now. Xerox, Bousch & Lomb, Kodak, were all thriving and keeping people employed. Now the largest employers are a teaching hospital/university and a grocery store…Strong and Wegman’s can not keep this area flourishing.  Almost all business has fled to a less TAXING, lower regulation and mandate states or overseas leaving empty shells and emptier people behind. This area is now a welfare haven. Democrats stay in power because of the welfare mentality here now. We used to be independent and proud, now people are proud they get 99 week extentions to unemployment or flashing their welfare CREDIT CARD at Walmart…

Last local coal plant

That left Building 321 at Eastman Business Park, just west of Mt. Read Boulevard, as the only remaining coal-fired plant in the area.
Two decades ago, Kodak was in the public eye because of large-scale atmospheric releases of toxic solvents (It was also the leading employer in the greater Rochester area, but no longer…they have laid-off or fired 3/4 of the people who worked there for decades…). Since that time, Kodak has slashed toxic releases to air and water by 89 percent, and reduced solvent releases by an even greater percentage.
Today, the large majority of Kodak’s releases to the air are related to Building 321. The plant is the state’s second-leading emitter of toxic acid compounds that come from burning coal, and is New York’s single largest source of sulfur dioxide, according to state and federal data (This too will close, like all of the manufacturioing in the greater Rochester area).