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Latino Residents Kept in Dark on Health Threat at Texas TCE Superfund Site

"Predominantly Latino residents in Grand Prairie, west of Dallas, say they’ve been told little or nothing about air, soil and groundwater poisoned by TCE, a known human carcinogen."

"The Beltrán family always stocks two to three cases of bottled water in the cluttered garage of their home in Grand Prairie, Texas. They’ve used it to drink and cook for 15 years. And they trek to the nearest Walmart to stay fully stocked.

“We got here and the water was salty, super salty,” Santa Barbara Beltrán, 72, said in Spanish. “We buy jugs of water for cooking.”

Source: KERA, 12/06/2021

"Lawmakers Demand Oil And Gas Firms Divulge Methane Leak Data"

"House Science Committee says information will help the U.S. meet its Global Methane Pledge "

"The House Science Committee has notified the chief executives of 10 major oil companies that they must disclose more data about their emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, in one of America’s biggest oil and gas producing regions.

Source: Washington Post, 12/06/2021

"Gambling ‘America’s Amazon’"

"Alabama’s largest utility plans to bury a heap of toxic coal waste in one of North America’s most biodiverse river systems. Experts say it will put one of the nation’s most pristine wetlands at risk."

Source: CNN, 12/06/2021

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