Video op-ed: Communities in a newly-revealed cancer cluster in Texas deserve justice

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By EHN EditorsMar 5, 2025, 9:56 am62 pts
Highlands, Texas is a small community on the outskirts of Houston that sits beside the San Jacinto River Waste Pits Superfund Site. The two pits, just shy of 34 acres combined, were originally built in the 1960s to house waste materials from a paper mill. Last month, based on a request from The Texas Health and…

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Video op-ed: Communities in a newly-revealed cancer cluster in Texas deserve justice

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