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A gentrifying Texas neighborhood on a deadly chemical plume – Scalawag

This story was produced and co-published in collaboration with Environmental Health News. There’s a certain smell that reminds Dianna Cormier-Jackson of her childhood on Leila Street in Houston’s Fifth Ward. When she was young in the early 1960s, she recalls the air there feeling “heavy,” as if it was thick with oil and gasoline. Some days...