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Historic treatment of rail ties in the Houston, Texas Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens neighborhoods has exposed residents to cancer-causing soil contamination. [1] Creosote and its extenders were used in wood preservation processes at a nearby rail yard and have been identified as carcinogens that are hazardous to human health.
This is a list of Superfund sites in Texas designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Beaumont Place is an unincorporated community in east central Harris County, Texas, United States.It is located along Beaumont Highway (U.S. Highway 90) and the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Although groundwater was contaminated, as noted above, community wells in the adjoining South Bend neighborhood were not contaminated. [6] PulteGroup, which built much of the Southbend community, claimed it was unaware of the problem until 1983, which was after it had built many of the homes, although it has been reported that construction workers complained of health problems while the ...
Watchdogs are raising new concerns about legacy contamination in Los Alamos, the birthplace of the atomic bomb and home to a renewed effort to manufacture key components for nuclear weapons.
A view of flames and giant smoke over the sky as a fire erupted at Moss Landing Power Plant on Thursday that located on Pacific Coast Highway in Moss Landing of Monterey Bay, CA, Jan. 17, 2025.
On March 14, 2024, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Colony Ridge and its owner, John Harris, for "have built a sprawling community northeast of Houston on a foundation of false, misleading, and deceptive sales, marketing, and lending practices. Colony Ridge’s business model is predicated on churning land purchasers through a foreclosure ...
Sitting on a rock, resting for a moment under the West Texas sky, something in the distance caught Craig Hensley’s eye. A massive collection of sticks piled on stone, a nest hidden in the side ...