Neighborhood Witness

Neighborhood Witness empowers you to hold polluters accountable & ensure your right to clean air. Neighborhood Witness is a project of @EnvironmentTex.

[Neighborhood Witness @ReportAPolluter]

In under 30 seconds, you can sign up for illegal air pollution email alerts from Neighborhood Witness. We'll let you know which plants near you are violating the law, and you can report them to the @TCEQ. Sign up here to ensure your right to clean air: https://t.co/f6Cdbp90RH

[Catherine Fraser @cathwfraser]

“Currently, the @TCEQ doesn’t have adequate tools to penalize bad actors and discourage that behavior," said @ErinForYall. #txlege

https://t.co/edvSp7BjKu @BmtEnterprise via @jd_journalism

[Catherine Fraser @cathwfraser]

Enterprise's Mont Belvieu Complex reported a February 1 fire at one of their warehouses to TCEQ, announcing a release of over 14 thousand pounds of particulate matter.

Anyone hear anything about this?

https://t.co/KDo7wvRfyP @ReportAPolluter

[One Breath @OneBreathHOU]

The Parish plant, owned and operated near Houston by @nrgenergy, pumps out more climate-altering #carbondioxide than the entire state of Delaware, according to @cohan_ds.

https://t.co/Buyfk3Avs7

[One Breath @OneBreathHOU]

It doesn't make sense for @TCEQ to park all three new mobile air monitoring vans all the way in Austin when *this* happens in Houston on a Wednesday afternoon.

https://t.co/QweZ8tTRq2

[Allyn West @allynwest]

365.

4,086. 119.

$0.01.

Four numbers from the new @EnvironmentTex report on illegal air pollution in Texas in 2019 by @eoneil83. #MakePollutersPay

[One Breath @OneBreathHOU]

In Texas, polluters are not being held accountable for their recklessness. Using @EnvironmentTex data, @eoneil83 shows the staggering proportion between the number of illegal pollution events and the paltry number of penalties TCEQ issued.

[One Breath @OneBreathHOU]

Our newsletter went out today!

It begins and ends with the new @EnvironmentTex report finding that companies illegally released pollution somewhere in Texas every single day last year. It’s why @cathwfraser says she *smashed* that button to cast her ballot. #Election2020

[Catherine Fraser @cathwfraser]

We had a great webinar last night on local environmental enforcement! Thanks to all our speakers and attendees. Didn't make it? You can watch the recording on our Facebook page here: https://t.co/CB1IMuYXiV

[Catherine Fraser @cathwfraser]

THREAD: Every single day in 2019, an industrial facility somewhere in Texas illegally polluted our air, a new report from @EnvironmentTex found.

https://t.co/dPtaWTvXOd

[One Breath @OneBreathHOU]

Every single day in Texas, a new @EnvironmentTex report finds, companies illegally release air pollution. Every single day.

https://t.co/qGxHsyGp58

[Environment Texas @EnvironmentTex]

New report: Illegal air pollution in Texas has doubled since 2015.
Pollution increases coincided with reduction in EPA oversight https://t.co/C7ZUSq8BkF

[One Breath @OneBreathHOU]

"Beyond the pale."

That's how @TCEQ Executive Director Toby Baker described last year's chemical disasters. The agency charged with protecting our health and natural resources is finally saying the right things. #MakePollutersPay

His remarks: https://t.co/DdSi87gSGc

[One Breath @OneBreathHOU]

One of the dirtiest coal plants in the country is right in Houston's backyard. Learn more on Wednesday, September 30, and register below. #ParishIsBurning

https://t.co/3RsgCjLqNF

[Neighborhood Witness @ReportAPolluter]

The Huntsman Port Neches facility in Jefferson County reported plans to @TCEQ to release over 30,000 pounds of pollution as a unit starts up after Hurricane Laura. Report this polluter & ensure they're held accountable for any unauthorized pollution here: https://t.co/DTPwUDPD7w

[One Breath @OneBreathHOU]

Hurricanes. Wildfires. A grinding pandemic that has claimed nearly 190,000 Americans.

"With the climate movement, we can have faith for a better tomorrow," @HeatherMcTeer has said, "but we have to have action."

That's what our newsletter this month is all about. Faith. Action.

[One Breath @OneBreathHOU]

"Imagine being advised to shelter in place in your home when the next hurricane swirls toward Houston and the refinery next door starts flaring." #OurSharedHou #EnvironmentalJustice

https://t.co/XkiRJNQTU1

[Robert D. Bullard @DrBobBullard]

We're good neighbors. Why won't Houston's industry be? | One Breath Partnership https://t.co/pxI8RjVf4T #environmentaljustice #racialjustice #healthequity #blacklivesmatter

[Matthew Tresaugue @mtresaugue]

"Monitoring air pollution is more important than ever," @Science4Justice says while monitors remain off in #Laura's path. "You would hope that the state would mobilize every resource available to provide information about what’s in the air in this region." https://t.co/wWHFXvROoq

[Matthew Tresaugue @mtresaugue]

Abruptly shuttered oil refineries and petrochemical plants released more than 4 million pounds of extra air pollution in Texas as #HurricaneLaura approached. In Louisiana, it's unclear what's in the air with monitors offline, @KnickmeyerEllen reports.
https://t.co/NhuPmoT0xd

[Matthew Tresaugue @mtresaugue]

"The fence-line community is the one that’s bearing the burden of pollution and industrial encroachment,” @DrBobBullard told @nytimes after releases of toxic pollution because of #HurricaneLaura. “It’s just that simple."

https://t.co/BPFmEgNuRI