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Months after elevated levels of toxic chemicals were detected outside of a Fifth Ward community center in Houston, the Environmental Protection Agency's most recent soil testing results returned safe levels.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/environmental-justice/2025/06/04/523077/months-after-toxins-detected-recent-soil-tests-at-fifth-ward-community-center-return-safe-levels/

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found levels of toxic chemical contamination in the soil at Julia C. Hester House, a community center in Houston’s Fifth Ward, that exceed the agency’s screening levels for children.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/environmental-justice/2025/02/10/513358/dioxin-levels-in-soil-near-fifth-ward-community-center-exceed-levels-safe-for-children-epa-says/

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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/

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The Kashmere Gardens multi-service center will receive a permanent generator next year, city officials announced Wednesday. The move is one step in a plan to establish a resiliency hub in one of the city's most underserved neighborhoods.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/2024/11/20/506667/permanent-generator-to-be-installed-in-kashmere-gardens-resiliency-hub-next-year/

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Northeast Houston residents around a cancer-causing contamination site will see ecosystem enhancements and a solar energy system thanks to a $20 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/environmental-justice/2024/09/26/501139/kashmere-gardens-fifth-ward-gets-20-million-for-solar-energy-generation-and-ecosystem-enhancements/

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Houston City Councilwoman Letitia Plummer to bring 200 solar microgrids to Kashmere Gardens seniors 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/city-of-houston/2024/08/15/496863/houston-city-councilwoman-letitia-plummer-to-bring-200-solar-microgrids-to-kashmere-gardens-seniors/

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A $20 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency will boost energy resilience in the Greater Fifth Ward, according to the Houston Health Department.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2024/07/31/495144/20-million-environmental-protection-agency-grant-will-boost-fifth-ward-energy-resilience/

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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/

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Opposing the recent approval of a northeast Houston concrete crushing plant construction project, Harris County officials Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2024/05/08/486932/harris-county-sues-texas-commission-on-environmental-quality-over-concrete-crushing-facility-health-risks/

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Federal environmental regulators have found cancer-causing chemicals in the groundwater and air beneath the soil near the contaminated Union Pacific railyard in northeast Houston. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2024/03/29/482063/cancer-causing-chemicals-exceed-normal-levels-near-union-pacific-railyard-epa-says/

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The Department of Transportation grant will target two neighborhoods recently found among the most dangerous in Houston in terms of traffic injuries and fatalities for children.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/transportation/2024/03/13/480453/gulfton-alief-to-benefit-from-43-million-grant-aimed-at-rebuilding-sidewalks-increasing-tree-canopy-to-mitigate-heat/

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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/

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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/

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