Members of the Fifth Ward Community Protest Budget Cuts to Superfund Site
Style Magazine Newswire | 7/28/2017, 11:20 a.m.
Source: CW39.com
In Houston’s historic Fifth Ward, neighbors worry that politics and profits are taking priority over cleaning up their community. Neighbors are saying their community is surrounded by toxic hazards and instead of cleaning up their neighborhood they are being further boxed in by the chemicals to make room for new development. It something they told News Fix is environmental racism. The M.D.I. Superfund site is a 35-acre tract of land contaminated from a foundry that went bankrupt in 1992. It has already been documented how lead has poisoned the community’s children. The community rejects the Trump administration's proposed budget that cuts superfund money by 30%. Demonstrators also reject recommendations from the task force set up by the new EPA Chief, Scott Pruitt. They also fear a developer that purchased the land wants to build luxury condominiums A.S.A.P. Development, they say, will skimp on cleanup, and price them out of their homes.
