A coalition of more than 100 organizations in the Houston-Gulf Coast Region, the CEC fosters dialogue, education, and collaboration on environmental issues.
Houston, TX
Joined May 2013
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CEC Houston retweeted
Regulators repeatedly documented — but did little to address — problems at a Houston-area tank farm.
Then on March 17, 2019, a fire blew through a corner of the facility, releasing toxic chemicals into nearby communities for weeks. Via @pubhealthwatch: bit.ly/40ICr13
CEC Houston retweeted
Join @FloodMuseum and us tomorrow for @houmayor's Earth Day HTX events downtown and tell your story!
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CEC Houston retweeted
The #InflationReductionAct stands to benefit communities like never before. How should we spend the money? Our new research with @TAMU pinpoints which communities across the country face the greatest risks from a destabilized climate — and why.
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CEC Houston retweeted
Sharon Rogers was "blown out of bed" by an explosion at @exxonmobil in 2021. The corporation has broken environmental laws thousands of times. But they keep appealing to avoid paying any damages. "It’s awful to have to always live in fear," Rogers says.
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CEC Houston retweeted
What's changed so it never happens again? The @chemsafetyboard hasn't completed an investigation, but ITC has applied for a permit to keep operating. With lax enforcement, Texas' "honor system" for industry, Carolyn Stone, a Channelview resident, says, isn't working.
CEC Houston retweeted
As Houston Ship Channel expands, Pleasantville and Galena Park residents express concerns about potential toxic exposures click2houston.com/news/local…
It's that time of year! @EDFtx's video contest for young Houstonians is now accepting submissions through April 1. First prize is $2,500. (Only rule is don't be boring.)
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CEC Houston retweeted
A stronger regional haze plan will protect our national parks and our everyday health from the pollution from old-fashioned power plants like @nrgenergy's W. A. Parish outside Houston. @EPAregion6 has the power to do both. #ParishIsBurning #ShutDownParish
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CEC Houston retweeted
Yesterday, after equipment failed, TPC Group's Houston plant, looming over @ChavezHS_HISD in the East End, burned chemicals for about 2 hours — including >205 pounds of cancer-causing 1,3-butadiene, the chemical their Port Arthur plant leaked for months after a 2019 explosion. 🧵
ALT Flare stacks at a chemical plant loom above treetops behind a high school in Houston, Texas.
CEC Houston retweeted
Our #txlege #TwitterSpaces will have *everything* — concrete batch plants, grid reform, clean energy, orphan wells, TCEQ, electric buses —
CEC Houston retweeted
Texas lawmakers have a lot to do this #txlege, which begins Tuesday. What has our attention? Join us Monday for a conversation to set the stage for the state's work.
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CEC Houston retweeted
Could 2022 be the beginning of *this* future?
It's been a tough year, but we've made a lot of important progress, too, with big climate action and smaller attempts to monitor our air more closely and create more accountability.
See more: change.onebreathhou.org/
CEC Houston retweeted
After consistent community pressure, @Port_Houston committed publicly for the first time to a long-term goal of carbon neutrality, agreed to use cleaner equipment to expand the Ship Channel and rolled out a zero-emissions truck.
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CEC Houston retweeted
It's been a long, hard year. But it hasn't been without progress. After 2022, we are:
✅ Taking climate action through the #InflationReductionAct
✅Rebuilding communities through the #IIJA
Locally, we made progress, too. This is just some of what happened for good this year.