Port Arthur in Action!
Recent media comments:
PACAN CEO Beard in DC for Earth Week 21; MC’d the Washington Monument rally;
Climate activists confront congressional gridlock with week of protests | Here & Now (wbur.org)
Beard pens op-Ed on disappointment with 87th Lege, Deshotel and Phelan.
3/14/21 Beard in Austin before TX Legislature to support anti-pollution bill;
https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/.../Port-Arthur...
8/18/21 PACAN, EIP and LSLA file complaint with EPA over it's failure to protect COPA residents from hazardous pollution from OxBow Calcining.
PACAN’s Beard discusses OxBow with Public Health Watch;
https://publichealthwatch.org/.../small-plant-big-polluter/
https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/.../PA-residents-call...
https://www.12newsnow.com/.../502-97eb2afa-4cbd-4fcd-9a1b...
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/.../port-arthur.../...
https://kfdm.com/.../pa-environmental-group-wants...
Beard gives statement on EJ/SJ issues to NEJAC on Enviro, social and “restorative” justice
PACAN, Beard give statements to NEJAC on behalf of Sierra Club:
https://www.sierraclub.org/.../advocates-speak-out...
On August 25, PACAN’s request for a “ contested case hearing” was heard by the TCEQ commissioners.
Date for SOAH hearing set, Nov. 16, 2021.
https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/.../PA-group-nets...
SOAH Administrative Law Judges rules in favor of Beard and PACAN as “affected parties” in seeking contested case standing.
Beard quoted in response to Biden inaction on oil exports;
https://www.commondreams.org/.../activists-say-biden...
10/23
Beard selected to the Commission Shift’s Advisory Committee
2/21/21 EPA takes up PACAN’s OxBow complaint against TCEQ;
https://www.desmog.com/.../fossil-fuel-oxbow-william.../
10/30-11/11/21
Beard/PACAN in Glasgow UK as a delegate to the UN COP 21 Conference;
Participated on international panel on methane;
Beard speaks with US Energy Secretary Granholm @ COP on the Gulf Coast petrochemical build-out;
https://mobile.twitter.com/.../status/1457741983196274689...
Beard receives the Community Sentinel Award for Environmental Stewardship
http://paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com/.../fractracker...
PACAN petitions US EPA, who tells tells TCEQ to fix Valero air issues
https://digital.olivesoftware.com/.../ShowArticle.aspx...
12/6/21 PACAN CEO John Beard facilitated and MC’d a climate activist protest at the World Energy Congress held in Houston.
- https://abc13.com/.../petroleum-industrys.../11306042/
https://www.facebook.com/peter.bella.125/videos/605070954136774/
12/22/21 PACAN CEO Beard’s interview with Tom Pelton of EIP:
https://soundcloud.com/user-504691926
https://environmental http://integrity.org/.../12/DraftJohnBeardPodcast122221.mp3
ProPublica interviews CEO Beard regarding pollution in Port Arthur;
https://www.propublica.org/.../the-dirty-secret-of...
Videos:
PACAN’s Blue Marlin video-
PACAN releases two short videos of Port Arthur, industrial sites, pollution sources:
John Beard, Jr. President and CEO of PACAN believes that more attention on the public’s health is needed to address the high incidence rate of cancer, heart, lung and kidney disease of Port Arthur residents, especially those in the fenceline communities.
Port Arthur activist says study shows reach of hazards
Study links cancer, distance to refineries
PACAN-LSLA Blue Marlin OOP Scoping comments
C:\Users\jbear\OneDrive\Documents\12-4-2020 PA-CAN Scoping Comments on BMOP.pdf