According to a new study by Texas A&M researchers, soil in Houston's Greater Fifth Ward has "significantly elevated levels of heavy metal contaminants." In fact, some samples of Fifth Ward soil ...

But the wards live on as the names of some of Houston’s most iconic neighborhoods and communities of color, from Fifth Ward north of downtown ... was founded, when Texas lawmakers amended ...

Elevated levels of lead have been discovered in playgrounds in Houston, Texas, new research reports ... yards and play areas around the Greater Fifth Ward. The Greater Fifth Ward is a neighborhood ...

executive director of Air Alliance Houston. "Air pollution doesn't effect everyone in Texas the same. It's the people who live closest to it." For now, with the plans for the Fifth Ward on hold ...

A study conducted by Texas A&M University researchers ... and investigations into the Kashmere Gardens and Fifth Ward neighborhoods of Houston, areas already burdened by cancer-causing chemicals ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Union Pacific said the Texas ... All 42 soil samples test positive for cancer-causing chemicals in Fifth Ward, officials say " I have lung cancer in both lungs and my ...

Union Pacific began collecting soil samples at the Boyce-Dorian Park in Houston ... by Texas A&M University researchers deduced that toxic levels of lead found in the soil of some Fifth Ward ...

The City of Houston plans to relocate Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens residents ... In a press conference Thursday morning, Turner noted a 2019 Texas Department of Health and Human Services ...