Houston to spend millions to relocate residents living near polluted Union Pacific rail yard
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July 14, 2023
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston plans to spend millions of dollars to relocate residents from neighborhoods located near a rail yard polluted by a cancer-linked wood preservative that has been blamed for an increase in cancer cases, the city's mayor announced Thursday.
Texas health officials in 2019 identified a cancer cluster in Houston's historically Black Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens neighborhoods. A second cluster was identified in 2021. Health officials have found higher rates of respiratory cancers as well as childhood cancers, including acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
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