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They had a fairytale American childhood - but was radiation slowly killing them?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Community members living near a contaminated Union Pacific Rail Yard in Fifth Ward are outraged by the City of Houston’s lack of transparency.
