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cancer cluster
State health report finds alarming rate of cancer diagnosis among children in 5th ward
Dianna Cormier Jackson has lived in the Kashmere Gardens area for over 60 years. Jackson said she’s lost family members and neighbors to several types of cancer in that time. “My mom, my uncle, two of my brothers, one of them worked for Southern Pacific, but they just brushed it off, my ex-husband died, my …
‘They’re Killing Us,’ Texas Residents Say of Public Health and Environmental Rollbacks – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Danielle Nelson’s best monitor for the emissions billowing out of the oil refineries and chemical plants surrounding her home: The heaving chest of her 9-year-old asthmatic son. On some nights, the boy’s chest shudders as he fights for breath in his sleep. Nelson suspects the towering plants and refineries are to blame, rising like a …
