Houston approves $5M to relocate residents living near polluted Union Pacific rail yard wboc.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wboc.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Houston officials on Wednesday approved $5 million for a fund to help relocate residents from neighborhoods located near a rail yard polluted by a cancer-linked wood preservative that has been blamed for an increase in cancer cases. Residents and local officials have long blamed the high number of cancer cases on contamination from a rail yard originally owned by Southern Pacific and later bought by Union Pacific near two historically Black neighborhoods, Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens.
Houston officials on Wednesday approved $5 million for a fund to help relocate residents from neighborhoods located near a rail yard polluted by a cancer-linked wood preservative that has been blamed for an increase in cancer cases.
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