The Fifth Ward community can expect to see $20 million worth of change thanks to a grant from the Environmental Protection ...

Fifth Ward’s Hester House will now be surrounded by a fence after new test results revealed elevated levels of highly toxic dioxins in the soil. The Environmental Protection Agency and Union ...

Community leaders blame a history of “corporate greed,” negligence and environmental racism for cancer-causing contamination ...

The Trump administration is rolling back a division in the EPA that was designed to help address pollution in Black and ...

The slippery social competition tasks players to don hazmat suits and solve puzzles to disarm paint and slime bombs before ...

Virgil Hobson, 57, and Christopher Williams, 49, both Democrats will appear on the ballot for Rockford's Fifth Ward. With ...

Harris County officials, including Commissioner Rodney Ellis and Congressman Sylvester Turner, will address the public about the EPA's findings of dioxin contamination at the Julia C. Hester House in ...

Hester House. The dioxin levels found in the dirt outside the Fifth Ward recreation center exceed the EPA's screening standard for children by five times. The EPA website states, "Dioxins are ...

A recent study from the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and Union Pacific has found high levels of a cancer-causing toxin, dioxin, near a recreation center in a Fifth Ward ...

at the Fifth Ward police station, by Coroner WILDEY: JAMES H. GILBRAITH, of No. 125 West Twenty-eighth-street, sworn -- I saw deceased and another man, whose name 1 have since learned is YELVERTON ...