To find data about cancer in Deer Park, Deer Park Community Advisory Council (DPCAC) asked its facilitator to search the Texas Cancer Registry (TCR) and also to summarize studies previously conducted for the community-industry forum by the state health department. Recent cancer statistics on Deer Park were not found, but data comparing Texas to other…

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Shell Deer Park General Manager (GM) Guy Hackwell updated the CAC on the current status of the sale of the refinery to joint venture partner Pemex.   Scott Malm, Ph.D., a Project Toxicologist with the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health (CTEH), spoke about cancer and factors researchers consider when trying to find a cause for cancer.  

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Deer Park Community Advisory Council (DPCAC) members attended a virtual forum on COVID-19 in late September, with facts from a variety of public health sources presented by Rassull Suarez, MD, MPH, the Dow Chemical Health Services Physician Director.  Dr. Suarez covered the Coronavirus’s  risks, symptoms, transmission, testing, and how to protect oneself from exposure.  Readers…

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When stay-at-home orders were issued in March, Deer Park’s  chemical plants, refinery, and related businesses continued to operate because the chemical business is deemed a Critical Infrastructure Sector by the US Department of Homeland Security.  At an early June video meeting, Deer Park Community Advisory Council (DPCAC) community members asked each member plant to explain…

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Deer Park Community Advisory Council (DPCAC) focused on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) program called Process Safety Management (PSM) at its late February  meeting, 28 years to the day that the program became effective. PSM is a uniform set of rules for specific industries to safely manage the use, storage, manufacturing, handling, or…

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