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“Our communities in Houston have a very unique exposure rate simply because of the density of infrastructure that is co-located in our communities,” he said. “It’s not a question of if (the facilities) are going to explode or leak or flare, but a question simply when.”
EPA Region 6 hasn't held a community outreach call since January 2025. Fenceline Watch & 44 other orgs sent a meeting request to update communities on what they've been doing in our region.
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
“It’s our lives that are at stake,” Arellano said. “It’s our families that will suffer at the end of the day, and it’s our youth that will get stolen in order to supply soldiers for this war.”
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"What's going on at CERAWeek in the George R. Brown Convention Center right now is a bunch of CEOs, a bunch of multinational corporations making plans to put facilities in our backyards that we won't find out about until years from now, when they're coming to seek a permit. They think that they have the right to our air, the right to our water, the right to our bodies,"
Join us for our next community meeting!
There will be community resources, a free corsage-making workshop, & we’ll continue our work on caring for our community by planning a response when chemical disasters happen.
Refreshments will be provided!
Join Fenceline Watch and citizen scientists from around the world as we work together to see how much the petrochemical and other industries are putting harmful products into our waterways by collecting and counting the plastic byproducts in the bayou.