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The City of Houston approved a $5 million voluntary relocation program to help residents who've been fighting for years to get the area cleaned up. They live near a Union Pacific Rail Yard that is contaminated with creosote, but residents have been reluctant to move because of confusion about the city’s relocation plan.
Houston City Council member Tarsha Jackson called a meeting to clear up "misinformation" about the creosote contamination in the Fifth Ward.
Houston City Council delayed a vote that'd give the Houston Land Bank $2 million to move residents out of a deadly cancer cluster in the Fifth Ward.
A federal agency is requiring the Union Pacific Railroad to investigate any links between contamination and Fifth Ward's cancer clusters.
Houston is one step closer to cleaning up properties contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants.