For years, Union Pacific has failed to remove all the toxic creosote that seeped into the groundwater and soil in a rail yard in Fifth Ward. Residents gathered on Monday to protest yet again for Union Pacific to clean up the contamination near their homes.
Delores Peterson, left, and Dianne Sutton Osborne join a group of Fifth Ward residents protesting environmental pollution by Union Pacific outside a rail yard along Liberty Road Monday, Feb. 28, 2022 in Houston.Activist Sandra Edwards didn’t want Black History Month to pass her by without again calling attention to Union Pacific’s failure to remove all the toxic creosote that seeped into the groundwater and soil at the end of her street in Fifth Ward.
Rail ties were long treated with creosote in the U.S. to preserve them. Now creosote is considered a likely carcinogen. And while wood hasn’t been treated at this site for decades, the
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