Fifth Ward residents call on Union Pacific to do more to clean up the toxic contamination in their neighborhood A Houston railyard, now owned by Union Pacific, is contaminated with creosote, a likely human carcinogen. Creosote was used decades prior by the previous owner to treat wooden railroad ties and has since seeped into the soil and groundwater.
Newsletter Deconstructed: Steven Donziger vs. Big Oil This week, after nearly 1,000 days of arbitrary detention, the environmental and human rights lawyer Steven Donziger was released from house arrest.
