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The Hidden Cost of the East Texas Oil Boom: Protecting Kilgore Workers and Families from Toxic Exposure and Industrial Injury For decades, the skyline of Kilgore was defined by the derricks of the "World's Richest Acre," a testament to the incredible grit of the men and women who built the East Texas Oil Field. But behind the legendary prosperity of the boom years lies a darker reality that Gregg County and Rusk County families are only now beginning to uncover. While corporations were extracting billions in wealth from the ground beneath Highway 259 and Elder Lake, the workers handling the pipe, the insulators wrapping the boilers, and the roughnecks working the rigs were breathing in invisible killers. You didn't know then that the white dust coating your coveralls was asbestos or that the sweet-smelling vapors from the separators were benzene molecules rewriting your DNA. You went to work, did your job, and provided for your family in Kilgore. Now, twenty or forty years later, a diagnosis of mesothelioma, acute myeloid leukemia (AML), or specialized lung disease has changed everything. It is not bad luck. It is not just "part of the job." It is the result of corporate decisions to…
