Months after elevated levels of toxic chemicals were detected outside of a Fifth Ward community center in Houston, the Environmental Protection Agency's most recent soil testing results returned safe levels.
#EnergyEnvironment #EnvironmentalJustice #Houston #Local #News #CancerClusters #Creosote #Dioxins #FifthWard #KashmereGardens #SoilTesting
Union Pacific completed its final round of soil sampling to test for toxic chemicals in Houston’s Fifth Ward and says contamination levels are "below the thresholds that pose an immediate health risk." Long-term health threats will now be assessed.
#EnergyEnvironment #EnvironmentalJustice #Houston #Local #News #Creosote #Epa #FifthWardCancerCluster #HoustonSFifthWard #SoilTesting #UnionPacific
Some residents of Houston’s Fifth Ward, where there is ongoing soil and water testing for cancer-causing toxic chemicals, now have the opportunity to get free cancer screenings as part of a collaboration between city leaders and a nonprofit.
#CityOfHouston #EnergyEnvironment #EnvironmentalJustice #HealthScience #Houston #Local #News #CancerCluster #CancerStageShiftingInitiative #CouncilMemberLetitiaPlummer #Creosote #HoustonSFifthWard #NationalMinorityQualityForum
The results of the first round of residential soil sampling in Houston's Fifth Ward have been released, and the EPA will be holding office hours Wednesday through Saturday for residents to discuss their results.
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The Environmental Protection Agency extended a deadline for Union Pacific to collect soil samples for potential cancer-causing chemicals near a contaminated railyard in Houston's Fifth Ward.
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The EPA is finally moving to clean up a Cass Lake, MN superfund site at the former St. Regis Paper Co. location in Cass Lake, which closed in 1985, which is contaminated with creosote.
Creosote is a wood-treatment chemical that is toxic.
But what is creosote?
Creosote is made from the distillation of tar from wood or coal and is used as a wood preservative. If you have seen railroad ties and utility poles, you have seen, and smelled, wood treated with creosote.
It has been used as a wood preservative since the mid-1800s.
The EPA does not consider that creosote as a risk to the general public.
But "Creosote may pose risks to fish and invertebrates when creosote-treated wood is used in aquatic and railroad structures."
The Cass Lake community is abandoned due to creosote pollution at very high concentrations.
https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/creosote
Other sources do indicate that creosote exposure, especially prolonged contact or drinking water contaminated with creosote, can cause health impacts. The health impacts include different forms of cancer. At elevated concentrations irritation & similar are possible.
Union Pacific -- under the oversight of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- began soil testing near the company's contaminated railyard in Houston's Fifth Ward this week.
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Federal environmental regulators have found cancer-causing chemicals in the groundwater and air beneath the soil near the contaminated Union Pacific railyard in northeast Houston.
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After deemed a cancer cluster, the city of Houston offered buyouts to relocate residents from the Fifth Ward. But many residents saw developers coming in and cleaning up the area. Now they ask is it a good time to move from the neighborhood that many have lived in for decades?
#CityOfHouston #CivilRights #EnergyEnvironment #Houston #Local #News #CancerCluster #Creosote #EnvironmentalJustice #FifthWard #KashmereGardens #UnionPacificRailYard
Goodbye, Toxic, Broken-Down Old Pier. Hello, Eelgrass?
https://baynature.org/article/make-way-for-eelgrass-dilapidated-unsafe-toxic-old-richmond-pier-to-be-removed-at-last/
"thanks to $1.2 million in funds from #Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, officials hope to get the old #FerryPoint pier out of the water before something terrible happens... these old logs were long ago treated with #creosote, a preservative toxic to aquatic life... In doing so, they will restore approximately 800 square feet of underwater habitat—a prime location for #eelgrass beds and spawning Pacific herring"
Are you looking for 5 beautifully haunting folk tales today? Well then you are in luck.
Check out the KEEPSAKES EP by Bygone Dave
"....The guitars weave a folk tale whilst Odette's vocals are otherworldly and the harmonies dreamlike...."
https://songwhip.com/bygonedave/keepsakes
#folk #folkmusic #indie #indiemusic #vocals #haunting #dreamlike #otherworldly #acoustic #bygones #creosote #victorian #sepia
I wrote this piece as a nod to my people, who have called these arid lands their home for centuries.
Cohost:
https://cohost.org/amayasnep/post/3250805-the-creosote
Tumblr:
https://www.tumblr.com/amayasnep/731778889724084224/the-creosote
Families to Relocate After Living By Union Pacific Rail Yard http://dlvr.it/SsL454 #BreakingNews #Class1railroad #creosote
@Mela Danke an euch alle für die super Diskussionsrunde! Es war auch für mich ein spannender Nachmittag im Kolloquim des @histKIT Und ja, ich schaue inzwischen auch ganz anders auf Kleingärten & denke über Spielplätze meiner Jugend nach. #wartungsgeschichte #stoffgeschichte #creosote #histtech #maintenance #envhist #envirotech
Larrea tridentata, aka creosote bush with flower buds in the Panamint Valley, October 2022. These bushes can be 1000's of years old in some places. #desert #nature #NaturePhotography #OptOutside #outdoors #exploring #explore #panamint #creosote
the smell of chaparral, or greasewood or creosote, in the damp desert washes and arroyos is always intoxicating, but especially this glorious spring! all is well now in the desert, as Lucy can attest
#Sonora #creosote #Lucy #blessed #Springtime
@billyjoebowers when I lived in Tucson, I could never run my AC. If it got below 80 inside, I was freezing. But the #petrichor and the #creosote Bush after rain made everything worth it #itsadryheat
#introduction - Hello, I am a postdoc at the Deutsches Museum in Munich & a lecturer at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. My broader research interests center on the intersections of #envhist #histtech #histsci #envtech #envjust #envhum.
Most recent books: “The Birth of #Geoengineering. Large-Scale Engineering Projects in the Early Stage of the #Anthropocene” (Wallstein 2021) & “Beyond the Lab and the Field. #Infrastructures as Places of #Knowledge Production” (co-ed. Eike-Christian Heine; Univ. of Pittsburgh Press 2022)
My current project deals with the history of #creosote and railway #maintenance cultures. The material history of this coal tar oil – used until today for wood impregnation of railway ties & utility poles – combines research perspectives from the #histtech (such as on #maintenance and #repair) with #envhist and #materialhistory. Its name is connected today with dozens of contaminated land sites, tons of hazardous waste, and burning #environmentaljustice issues.
