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Some residents of Houston’s Fifth Ward, where there is ongoing soil and water testing for cancer-causing toxic chemicals, now have the opportunity to get free cancer screenings as part of a collaboration between city leaders and a nonprofit.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/2025/03/13/515935/fifth-ward-residents-offered-free-cancer-screenings-as-water-soil-testing-continues/

#CityOfHouston #EnergyEnvironment #EnvironmentalJustice #HealthScience #Houston #Local #News #CancerCluster #CancerStageShiftingInitiative #CouncilMemberLetitiaPlummer #Creosote #HoustonSFifthWard #NationalMinorityQualityForum

The results of the first round of residential soil sampling in Houston's Fifth Ward have been released, and the EPA will be holding office hours Wednesday through Saturday for residents to discuss their results.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2025/03/04/515227/epa-begins-release-of-soil-testing-results-for-houstons-fifth-ward-discusses-next-steps/

#EnergyEnvironment #HealthScience #Houston #Local #News #CancerCluster #Creosote #Dioxins #Epa #FifthWard #UnionPacific

The results of the first round of residential soil sampling in Houston's Fifth Ward have been released, and the EPA will be holding office hours Wednesday through Saturday for residents to discuss their results.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2025/03/04/515227/epa-begins-release-of-soil-testing-results-for-houstons-fifth-ward-discusses-next-steps/

#EnergyEnvironment #HealthScience #Houston #Local #News #CancerCluster #Creosote #Dioxins #Epa #FifthWard #UnionPacific

The results of the first round of residential soil sampling in Houston's Fifth Ward have been released, and the EPA will be holding office hours Wednesday through Saturday for residents to discuss their results.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2025/03/04/515227/epa-begins-release-of-soil-testing-results-for-houstons-fifth-ward-discusses-next-steps/

#EnergyEnvironment #HealthScience #Houston #Local #News #CancerCluster #Creosote #Dioxins #Epa #FifthWard #UnionPacific

The results of the first round of residential soil sampling in Houston's Fifth Ward have been released, and the EPA will be holding office hours Wednesday through Saturday for residents to discuss their results.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2025/03/04/515227/epa-begins-release-of-soil-testing-results-for-houstons-fifth-ward-discusses-next-steps/

#EnergyEnvironment #HealthScience #Houston #Local #News #CancerCluster #Creosote #Dioxins #Epa #FifthWard #UnionPacific

The results of the first round of residential soil sampling in Houston's Fifth Ward have been released, and the EPA will be holding office hours Wednesday through Saturday for residents to discuss their results.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2025/03/04/515227/epa-begins-release-of-soil-testing-results-for-houstons-fifth-ward-discusses-next-steps/

#EnergyEnvironment #HealthScience #Houston #Local #News #CancerCluster #Creosote #Dioxins #Epa #FifthWard #UnionPacific

A large swath of East Harris County along the San Jacinto River -- where toxic waste was identified more than a decade ago -- was found to have 'significantly greater' instances of some types of cancer compared to the state average.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2025/02/24/514592/cancer-rates-harris-county-san-jacinto-river-waste-pits-significantly-greater-than-texas-average/

#EnergyEnvironment #HarrisCounty #HealthScience #Houston #Local #News #Texas #CancerCluster #EastHarrisCounty #SanJacintoRiver #SanJacintoRiverWastePits #SanJacintoRiverWastePitsSuperfund #TexasDepartmentOfStateHealthServices

As the Trump Administration makes federal budget cuts and reportedly considers firing more than 1,000 EPA employees, there are concerns about what that could mean for a contaminated railyard site in Houston.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2025/02/04/512925/uncertainty-at-epa-causes-concerns-about-cancer-cluster-investigation-in-houston/

#EnergyEnvironment #Houston #Local #National #News #CancerCluster #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #Epa #FifthWard #KashmereGardens #UnionPacificRailroad

The Environmental Protection Agency extended a deadline for Union Pacific to collect soil samples for potential cancer-causing chemicals near a contaminated railyard in Houston's Fifth Ward.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2024/11/26/507266/union-pacific-soil-sample-testing-deadline-extended-till-saturday/

#EnergyEnvironment #Houston #Local #News #CancerCluster #Creosote #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #Epa #FifthWard #UnionPacific

Union Pacific -- under the oversight of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- began soil testing near the company's contaminated railyard in Houston's Fifth Ward this week.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2024/06/05/489684/union-pacific-begins-soil-testing-for-cancer-causing-chemicals-in-fifth-ward/

#EnergyEnvironment #Houston #Local #News #CancerCluster #Creosote #FifthWard #KashmereGardens #UnionPacific

After deemed a cancer cluster, the city of Houston offered buyouts to relocate residents from the Fifth Ward. But many residents saw developers coming in and cleaning up the area. Now they ask is it a good time to move from the neighborhood that many have lived in for decades?

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2024/03/06/479784/industry-poisoned-a-vibrant-black-neighborhood-in-houston-is-a-buyout-the-solution/

#CityOfHouston #CivilRights #EnergyEnvironment #Houston #Local #News #CancerCluster #Creosote #EnvironmentalJustice #FifthWard #KashmereGardens #UnionPacificRailYard

Community members living near a contaminated Union Pacific Rail Yard in Fifth Ward are outraged by the City of Houston’s lack of transparency.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/infrastructure/development/2024/02/08/477002/fifth-ward-residents-want-more-transparency/

#CityOfHouston #Development #Houston #Infrastructure #Local #News #CancerCluster #FifthWard #MayorJohnWhitmire #UnionPacificRailYard

Funding that will help move Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens residents living near a contaminated railyard is being reconsidered after being delayed for almost a month.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/housing/2024/02/01/476201/city-of-houston-to-vote-on-last-phase-to-relocate-residents-living-in-cancer-cluster/

#CityOfHouston #Housing #Local #News #CancerCluster #FifthWard #KashmereGardens #UnionPacificRailYard #VoluntaryRelocationFund

Houston city council members Wednesday postponed a vote to move forward on financial steps for a program relocating Fifth Ward residents living near a contaminated Union Pacific rail yard.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2024/01/11/474179/houston-city-council-delays-vote-on-cancer-cluster-relocation/

#HealthScience #News #CancerCluster #FifthWard #HoustonCityCouncil #HoustonMayorJohnWhitmire