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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Mayor Sylvester Turner and the nation’s top environmental official toured a Houston neighborhood involved in a health crisis has been reporting on for years. A cancer cluster tied to the Union Pacific Railroad in the Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens has left the community feeling forgotten after city leaders have failed to take action on several …

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