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Report: Texas' lax cleanup rules for polluted sites endanger human health, environment

Published: Sept. 11, 2018, 5:09 a.m.

A forthcoming report by the Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund says the standards Texas uses to determine how much — and whether — to clean up abandoned industrial facilities and other contaminated sites are 'significantly weaker' than those of neighboring states and the federal government, in part because it tolerates a higher cancer risk.

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