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Expansion of I-45 in Downtown Houston Is on Hold, for Now, in a Traffic-Choked, Divided Region
The Biden administration’s Federal Highway Administration has asked TxDOT for a “pause” so that possible violations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act can be reviewed.
By Aman Azhar
April 30, 2021
With the downtown skyline in the background cars jam the northbound lanes of I-45 in Houston, Texas. Credit: Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images
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Termaria Bartley waited nearly three years for an apartment in Kelly Village, a public housing complex in Houston’s predominantly Black and Hispanic Fifth Ward. In July 2018, she moved in and received her first eviction notice from the Texas Department of Transportation a little over a year later.
Investigators are also looking into which chemical was burning. Author: Adam Bennett Updated: 8:20 PM CDT April 8, 2021
CHANNELVIEW, Texas Investigators from the Harris County Fire Marshal’s office began looking Thursday into what ignited an industrial fire in Channelview the day before, along with which chemical was burning.
The fire started just after 4 p.m. Wednesday inside a small storage warehouse at the K-Solv facility before spreading to a second warehouse.
Mikie Sopczak, Director of Environmental Health and Safety and Security for K-Solv, said it happened while a product was being transferred between containers.
“This was not large tanks and large bulks,” said Sopczak during a press conference Thursday morning. This was small quantities.”
Residents fight for environmental justice in Houston neighborhoods dealing with hazardous sites and air pollution
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HOUSTON – Living in Houston, air quality is a concern for nearly everyone, but research shows some communities are hit harder by the dangers of persistent pollution.
“Poor Black and brown communities are experiencing more of the burdens of environmental injustice, which we call environmental racism as well,” said Zoe Middleton with Texas Housers, a non-profit focused on solving housing and community development issues.
The group mapped industrial hazardous waste sites and sources of air pollution and found they were concentrated in low-income, historically Black, and Hispanic communities.
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