Today, Fenceline Watch, alongside more than 85 communities living on the frontline of chemical disasters, indigenous communities, elected officials, and environmental advocates, have signed a letter urging Congress to fully fund the U.S. Chemical Hazard and Safety Investigation Board as the agency faces potential elimination. 

The Shell Deer Park Chemicals facility disaster that occurred on May 5th, and is still ongoing, is a disgraceful event that lays bare Shell’s disregard for public safety and health. This disaster is simply the most recent disaster in a pattern of safety violations that put the surrounding neighborhoods and fenceline communities in Deer Park, Houston, and surrounding areas in harm's way.