A 2022 study by the City of Houston said chemicals used by Union Pacific were the catalyst to several cancer diagnoses of Kashmere Gardens residents, now the Texas Health Department chimed in and gave another answer.
The Texas Health Department concludes there's no connection between cancer diagnoses of Fifth Ward residents and chemicals used by Union Pacific.Union Pacific said the Texas Health Department found no cancer concerns after evaluating a 2022 City of Houston report that said chemicals used by the rail company decades ago are causing a cancer cluster. It's the latest update in a story ABC13 has covered and investigated for years.
"I had a hard time breathing," Wilder said. He also had a feeling he knew what doctors would tell him.His diagnosis isn't isolated. Sandra Edwards lost her dad.Latonya Payne lost her son and has cancer herself. A 2022 City of Houston study says chemicals used decades ago by Union Pacific to treat railway ties washed into the ground and water.
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