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EPA Moves Forward on Clean-Up of San Jacinto Waste Pits

Posted on April 9, 2018 · EPA says it will take 29 months to complete the clean-up.

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Houston, county attorney plan to sue Union Pacific for inadequate Fifth Ward cleanup plan

Posted on July 6, 2022 · The Union Pacific railyard is contaminated with creosote, a likely human carcinogen that resulted in Kashmere Gardens being deemed a cancer cluster in 2019.

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Supreme Court restricts the EPA’s authority to mandate carbon emissions

Nina Totenberg, NPR

Posted on June 30, 2022 · The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to mandate carbon emissions from existing power plants.

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Benzene pollution, and presidential portrait history (May 13, 2022)

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Posted on May 13, 2022 · On Friday's show: Excess pollution at local refineries, the Obama portraits, and blending classical music and hip hop.

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Cleanup of the San Jacinto Waste Pits must continue as planned, EPA says

Posted on April 18, 2022 · The waste pits were built in east Harris County on the San Jacinto River in the 1960s to store hazardous waste from a nearby paper mill.

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