Residents ask Union Pacific to do more to clean up contaminated Fifth Ward railyard
would never have been treated with what felt like such disrespect, as if their issues didn’t matter.
“Tonight is the night,” State Sen. Borris Miles said, kicking off the evening, with the sleeves of his button-down shirt rolled up. “The faces you see out there, TCEQ, are the faces of this community. And they want answers.” But those in the room weren’t having it: “More needs to be done, not just more of the same,” Mayor Sylvester Turner said. U.S. Rep Sheila Jackson Lee also opposed it. So did Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee.
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