Topics and Meetings

Upcoming Meetings

  • Next Meeting: Tuesday, September 22, 2026 - Tour of U.S. Coast Guard Sector
  • The typical PCAC meeting agenda includes updates from plants on environmental and safety performance and business information. The main topic may be a presentation, an annual report, or a tour. Time is always allotted for Q&A and discussion. Plans for the next few meetings are reviewed and confirmed. Contact us at info@pasadenacac.org if you would like an invitation to join us.

Spotlight on...

 

slide shows pictures and text describing the Chevron Pasadena Refinery site near Houston, TX.

Veronica Flores-Paniagua, Chevron Pasadena Stakeholder Lead, introduced Chevron Pasadena Refinery, located on the Houston Ship Channel near the Washburn Tunnel. Flores-Paniagua pointed out that the site is the oldest refinery along the Houston Ship Channel, dating back to 1919, and that Chevron acquired it in 2019. She said the property covers 456 acres, including a 323-acre working refinery and a non-operating former paper mill. Flores-Paniagua said that Chevron completed a $400 million renovation and expansion in 2024 to modernize the plant and reconfigure it for light crude. The refinery processes crude oil into fuels, can process about 125,000 barrels of oil per day, and has the capacity to produce roughly 1.25 million gallons of gasoline per day. The site also produces jet fuel and diesel.

Meeting Summaries
    • August 25, 2026 -- Pipeline Awareness. Summary.
    • May 26, 2026 -- PCAC Worker Safety Expo. Summary.
    • April 28, 2026 -- PCAC Tour of CPET Facility at San Jacinto College. Summary.
    • March 24, 2026 -- Natural Disaster Planning in PCAC Plants. Summary. HCOHSEM Presentation.
    • February 24, 2026 -- Road Projects and Regional Impacts. Summary. Presentations: TxDOT, Harris Co Pct 2, HCTRA
    • January 27, 2026 -- Natural Disaster Planning in PCAC Plants -- Canceled
    • December 2, 2025 -- Annual Report on Emissions from PCAC Plants. Summary. Short Presentation.
    • October 28, 2025 -- meeting canceled
    • September 23, 2025 -- Program Planning for 2026-27. Summary.
Of Special Interest Over the Years
  • January 25, 2022--Plant Communication with the Community When Planning a Maintenance Turnaround. Summary.
  • December 2, 2021-- Effects of Pollution on Health. Summary  Slides
  • March 25, 2021-- Harris County's New Community Air Monitoring Program. Summary
  • January 26, 2021-- Pasadena Citizens’ Advisory Council’s 30th Anniversary.  Summary.  Slides.
  • September 22, 2020-- Recent and Upcoming Technology to Improve the Safety of Truck Transportation of Plant Raw Materials and Products. Summary  Speaker's Slides.  Hydroblasting Safety Initiative
  • April 28, 2020-- Chemical Industry Hurricane Preparedness.  Summary.  Speaker Slides
  • January 28, 2020-- Industry Impacts on the Community: Jobs, Community Relations Programs, and Taxes. Summary
  • December 5, 2019 -- Center for Petrochemical, Energy and Technology Tour. Summary
  • March 5, 2019 -- Joint CAC Meeting: Consequences of Regulatory Changes on the Economy and the Environment. Summary. Speaker Slides: Honeycutt, Craft, Beskid.
  • April 25, 2018 – Joint Meeting with Bay Area Community Advisory Panel to hear Dr. Sam Mannan on Ranking of Chemical Facilities Based on Potential to Cause Harm to the Public. Summary.
Safety Moments

At each meeting, plants report workplace-related worker injuries and illnesses recorded as required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Occasionally, PCAC schedules plants to talk about their safety programs. Since 2010, the group has incorporated a Safety Moment into each meeting. Presented by a PCAC plant, the moment may be about safety specific to that plant or about preventing the kind of accidents common in everyday life.

Safety Tips

  • Credit card fraud is on the rise due to quickly evolving technology used to steal credit card information. The technological devices, which are becoming increasingly more available, are used to make ‘white plastic’ that appears to be a real credit card, but is just plastic used by scammers to hold stolen credit card information.

    Safety Moment: Fraud Protection

How We Select Meeting Topics

Every year or so, PCAC develops a Program Plan to assure it is addressing issues of greatest interest to community members.  Community members, plant members, and guests brainstorm topics they believe PCAC should address.  Using sticky dots, they choose those they most want to cover in the coming year.  By using different colors for community and plant members, PCAC is able to schedule the topics of most community interest. Members may also see whether there are differences in what community and plant members want to discuss.  The Program Plan is flexible and may be changed by group agreement.   Contact us at info@pasadenacac.org if there are issues you would like PCAC to address

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