The Healthy Port Communities Coalition (HPCC)

The Healthy Port Communities Coalition (HPCC) is a coalition of nonprofit, community-driven organizations that work to create a healthier Houston by empowering residents to recognize local issues and advocate for their communities. Visit healthyportcommunities.org and follow us!

Numbers don't lie, even if @TCEQ leadership doesn't like them.

Houston-area advocates and lawmakers are urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to use an EPA-approved offshore disposal option for toxic dredge material from the Houston Ship Channel expansion instead of placing it on land near residential communities. citizen.org/news/advocates…

🚨 Houston, it’s time to protect our communities — not poison them. For decades, neighborhoods like Pleasantville and Clinton Park — historic Black communities — have been treated like dumping grounds. 🩻 Families here deserve clean air, clean soil, and a healthy future.

🚢 The @Port_Houston drives jobs—but nearby residents are paying with their health. Communities need clean air, accountability, and action. See the grade: cleanportsreportcard.org #CleanPorts

Enterprise applies to amend wastewater discharge permit for natural gas liquids terminal outside Houston oilandgaswatch.org/alert/rec_d28e… @airallianceHOU @HealthyPortHTX @EnvironmentTex

Air Monitoring Community Meeting hosted by our HPCC members @actsorganization @cocohoustonnow and @fbc_environmental_org Tuesday, September 23, 2025 6-7:30pm Texas Southern University

The fine for this latest incident is approximately what Lyondell Chemical’s CEO makes in compensation by lunchtime every single day. citizen.org/news/tceq-orde…

That'll show 'em.

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🚢💨 Clean Ports = Healthy Communities Last week in Houston, leaders from EJ communities gathered to talk port pollution & demand clean air, safe soil & real accountability. The Port of Houston is expanding — but at what cost? It’s time for #CleanPortsNow. Read our summary ⬇️

Fenceline Watch was proud to participate the 2025 #InternationalPelletCount! Huge thanks to our wonderful volunteers. In one snapshot we collected 658 plastic pellets in just one 10-minute round & collected over 1,200 pellets total. #BreakFreeFromPlastic #PlasticsTreaty

Heads-up, y'all.

"The TCEQ told Public Health Watch that it has no plans to address Channelview’s benzene levels as long as readings on the stationary monitor are within state guidelines." 🙃

The highest levels exceed even Texas’ benzene guideline — the weakest in the nation — but aren’t being recorded by a state monitor. That means Channelview’s cancer risk could be higher than previously thought. publichealthwatch.org/2024/12/12/hou…