History: First met in February 1990. Oldest Responsible-Care CAC in east Harris County. One of the largest in US.
Number of plants: 43
Number of community members: Approximately 30 + visitors
Facilitator: Diane Sheridan
Facilitation Associate: Tiffany Miller
Contact information: dbsfacilitator@gmail.com or tmiller.cac@gmail.com
Website: www.laportecac.org
Meetings: Monthly except June and July. December party. First Tuesdays from 5:45 – 7:30 pm by Zoom or at varying locations. Meetings are open.
Goals:
- Awareness, understanding, appreciation
- Open and honest communication between community and industry
- Forum where Plant Managers share both good news and bad about plant operations
- Mutual understanding through education
- Continuous improvement as plants learn community needs and expectations
Most common issues of interest: health, safety, environment, emergency management and communications, hazmat transportation, workforce development, hurricane surge prevention
Most recent issues of interest (chosen in structured Program Planning process):
- Communication of plant events by plants, cities, county and across county lines
- Critiquing response and communications to 4 Summer 2021 plant events
- Impacts on plants from hurricanes, freeze, and COVID
- Annual report on emissions.
- Annual report on worker safety
- TRACER weather and air quality study, based in La Porte
- Harris County’s new air monitoring program
- Coastal Texas Study recommendations
- Warehouse regulations
- Workforce needs
- Traffic and adequacy of roads
- Hazardous materials transportation
- EHCMA’s new director and strategic plan
- Tours