TEXAS TRIBUNE
“It’s not just an immediate impact, but a multigenerational toxic harm that we experience because of emissions like benzene and all of these other petrochemicals,” Srivastava said.
CAPITAL & MAIN
“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.”
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,"
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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.
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.
On Monday, May 11, 2026, Fenceline Watch formally submitted a public comment to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop planned revisions of the Risk Management Program. A regulation under the Clean Air Act for facilities that handle the most hazardous substances and chemicals. Read the full comment.
