Posted on · The city is beginning the process to move residents who were affected in the cancer cluster area, caused by Union Pacific Rail Yard.
Posted on · The City of Houston announced earlier this summer it would start making plans to relocate residents living near a Union Pacific Rail Yard in Fifth Ward.
Posted on · Nine stationary air monitors -- and a mobile unit attached to an electric vehicle -- will be installed in communities including Meadowbrook, Allendale, Pecan Park and Park Place.
Posted on · The Fifth Ward Cancer Cluster Summit will explore the high cancer rates in the area and find possible solutions for residents impacted by the contaminated Union Pacific Rail Yard soil.
Posted on · Fifth Ward residents have been fighting for years to get contamination in their neighborhood cleaned up.
Posted on · Critics of the company have called the site a "textbook case of environmental racism."
Posted on · Though some facilities do emit formaldehyde directly, some 95% of the formaldehyde in Houston's air is formed by other chemicals reacting together, making it harder to regulate.
Posted on · On Monday's Houston Matters: A report finds greater-than-expected numbers of Houston adults developed certain types of cancer in the north Houston neighborhoods of Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens. We learn more.