Fifth Ward residents urge Union Pacific to clean up rail yard near cancer cluster at protest

Activist Sandra Edwards didn’t want Black History Month to pass her by without again calling attention to Union Pacific’s failure to remove all the toxic creosote that seeped into the groundwater and soil at the end of her street in Fifth Ward.

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