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THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Fenceline Watch supported Backbone Campaign in deploying the giant Constitution replica during the March 26 No Kings Rally on March 28, 2026.
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
About 500 protesters from across the country descended on the first day of Houston's CERAWeek energy conference Monday to protest the oil executives and federal leaders gathering for high-level talks downtown.
The annual protest has grown substantially in the past two years, as has the official response by police. This year, the march was corralled by more than 50 police officers, nearly half of them on horseback.
Fenceline Watch Founder and Director, Yvette Arellano, and Policy Director, Shiv Srivastava, speak on the toxic harm our community faces daily, and the conditions that exist to protect the companies responsible for the pollutants.
PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH
“Let’s establish some baselines.
Texas is responsible for more greenhouse-gas emissions than Saudi Arabia or the global maritime industry. Its oil, gas and petrochemical operations discharge tens of millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into the air each year, comprising almost one-fifth of such releases in the United States.”
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Regarding “Houston Chronicle: John Cornyn: Houston needs the Coastal Texas Project,” (Dec. 05): Senator John Cornyn is pushing lawmakers to fund the $34 billion Coastal Texas Project, commonly known as the Ike Dike, to “build a coastal storm barrier to protect at-risk petrochemical infrastructure and the Texas Gulf Coast.” But it's this same industry that makes disasters like storms and hurricanes worse. Instead of requiring the petrochemical industry to pay to protect their own plants — and protect the people who have lived here long before industry moved in — Sen. Cornyn offers up our tax dollars.
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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.