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EPA scientists went fishing to begin a study of how a pollution from a group of concrete batch plants impacts human health.
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West Dallas residents say they feel belittled by the response to concerns over the GAF shingle plant. Council Member Omar Narvaez says he's constrained by ethics laws.
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EPA regulators have announced a new program aimed specifically at putting data behind West Dallas residents' concerns.
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After vehement opposition from West Dallas residents, the city's zoning ordinance committee delayed a vote that would remove residents rights to file for a scheduled closure.
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The nonprofit Builders of Hope is working with the city of Dallas to create an anti-displacement program categorizing neighborhoods at risk of rapid gentrification.
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In our series on the arts and the economy, we examine how nearly 100 artists have found a thriving community in an area known as the Tin District near Fabrication Street.
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Dallas residents allege that the City of Dallas allowed Black and brown residential neighborhoods to be zoned next to industrial pollutants and are requesting a federal investigation.
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West Dallas residents say the fight to close an asphalt factory that pollutes their air is far from over, even though GAF has already promised to leave the community.
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West Dallas residents won a victory in their battle against industrial pollution this week. The GAF asphalt shingle factory has told residents it is leaving their neighborhood after more than 75 years of operation.
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Janie Cisneros hits a bright blue and lime green paper maché piñata with — a white letters that read GAF. That's the name of the company that operates a 75-year-old factory operating next to her house on Singleton Boulevard in West Dallas. The piñata swings from side to side while mariachi music plays.
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Debbie Orozco Solis says folks in her West Dallas neighborhood have to live with a fine dust that sometimes makes it hard to breathe. They share the neighborhood with a “concrete batch plant” that makes cement for construction projects.
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A new city-run program is hoping to help homeowners repair homes in Dallas' culturally-historic neighborhoods with grants.