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Houston approves $5M to relocate residents living near polluted Union Pacific rail yard

by September 27, 2023 0

Houston officials have allocated $5 million to a fund aimed at relocating residents from neighborhoods near a rail yard contaminated with cancer-linked wood preservative. The Union Pacific rail yard, located near historically Black neighborhoods, has been blamed for an increase in cancer cases. The wood preservative creosote, used at the site until the 1980s,...

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