Houston approves $5M to relocate residents living near polluted Union Pacific rail yard

HOUSTON: Houston officials on Wednesday approved $5 million for a fund to help 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.
Residents and local officials have long blamed the high number of cancer cases on contamination from a Union Pacific rail yard near two historically Black neighborhoods, Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens. The wood preservative creosote, which has been…