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New UH College of Medicine building opening in 2022
For Isaiah Carter, his white coat represents change.
“I’m a first-generation doctor and a first-generation graduate student in my family,” he said.
He’s also a first-year medical student at the University of Houston.
“My interest in medicine really started at a young age,” Carter said. “I have a mother that’s a 26-year breast cancer survivor.”
Now, Carter is hoping to pay it forward. He’s one of 60 students that will be attending school at the brand new college of medicine building at the University of Houston.
“The mission for this school and what they’re trying to accomplish, it’s amazing,” Carter said.
The university began construction on the three-story, medical school building in July 2020. It was founded on a social mission to serve underserved communities and address a nationwide shortage of primary care physicians.
“This is a community-based medical school focused on improving the health of the community, and so we’re delighted to be in the community, located right here in the Third Ward,” Dr. Stephen Spann, Founding Dean of UHCOM and Vice President of Medical Affairs said.
That access was celebrated Wednesday during a preview of the new building
“When you have a medical school of this caliber, it puts us on a different level,” Tilman Fertitta, chair of the University of Houston System Board of Regents said.
“To see what you’ve been able to achieve is extremely special,” Gov. Greg Abbott said.
Carter is now looking forward to the day he can focus on disease prevention.
“We’re being trained to look at patient health holistically and being able to meet each of those areas of need,” he said.
Source: www.click2houston.com
Residents vote against proposal to incorporate The Woodlands as a city
On Tuesday, residents in the Woodlands voted against two proposals to incorporate the township as a city.
THE WOODLANDS TOWNSHIP – PROPOSITION A
Authorizing the Type-A city incorporation of The Woodlands Township District and the adoption of an initial property tax rate of not more than $0.2231 per one hundred dollars ($100) valuation of taxable property.
THE WOODLANDS TOWNSHIP – PROPOSITION B
Upon incorporation of The Woodlands Township District into a Type-A General Law City to be called the City of The Woodlands, the transfer of the rights, powers, privileges, duties, purposes, functions, responsibilities, the authority to issue bonds, and the authority to impose taxes from The Woodlands Township District to the City of The Woodlands.
Some people told KPRC 2 they felt like the process was rushed and expensive. Others said, The Woodlands has grown and it’s time to move forward.
Barry Daniels said he voted in favor of the Woodlands becoming its own city because it’s time for a change.
“So that we can kind of control our own destiny. As it is we are subject to the whims of political organizations and groups outside of our township,” Daniels said.
Right now, the Woodlands uses law enforcement agencies and maintains streets and roads through Harris and Montgomery Counties.
According to the township’s website, if voters had approved both measures, the City of The Woodlands would be in control of its own police department along with maintaining roads and infrastructure.
It’s something that worried some residents like Cheryl.
“I knew that we would have to set up our own police department, and I wasn’t sure we would have the same level of security as we do now and that was very important to me. But I also felt like maintaining the roads was a very big issue. Of course, we are a very large community, but I felt like this may be more than they could handle,” she said.
In a Facebook post Noack said, “In the Woodlands, we still believe in smaller government, fiscal responsibility, and limited power, which is why voters were overwhelmingly against incorporation all along. It’s a shame the Township Board chose to ignore, and in some cases, actively suppress residents’ voices.”
Residents like Daniels hope The Woodlands will become a city one day and believe it’s a step in the right direction.
“I guess I would like to see them study it some more and not try to rush it next time and give us another chance to vote,” he said.
Source: www.click2houston.com
Family sues Union Pacific, City of Houston over teen’s cancer death
A Houston woman filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Union Pacific Railroad and the City of Houston over her nephew’s death from leukemia.After battling leukemia for five years, her nephew Corinthian Giles died in July 2021 at age 13.
On Wednesday, Latonya Payne, the teen’s legal guardian, joined thousands of Houston residents in suing Union Pacific Railroad Company for contaminating their properties and groundwater.
The lawsuit, filed in Harris County District Court, alleges that the company knowingly contaminated the area with creosote and other toxic chemicals, attempted to conceal the scope and danger caused by the contamination, and failed to clean it up. The suit also claims that the City of Houston failed to appropriately warn the community of the risks or prevent and mitigate the contamination, which the suit alleges caused cancer.
Payne’s nephew was raised in a home two blocks from Union Pacific’s Englewood Railyard and former creosote treatment plant in Houston’s Greater Fifth Ward area, where, in late 2019, Texas health officials confirmed a cancer cluster.
As defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a cancer cluster is a “greater-than-expected number of cancer cases that occurs within a group of people in a geographic area over a period of time.”
A study by the Texas Department of State Health Services found that there were higher rates of lung, esophagus, and throat cancer among adults in the area surrounding the railyard, which for decades has been contaminated with creosote, a mixture of hundreds of chemicals used as a preservative. The International Agency for Research on Cancer determined that the chemical is likely carcinogenic to humans.
In January 2021, six months before Giles’ death, the state health department reported additional significant findings — that childhood lymphoblastic leukemia in Houston’s Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens communities occurred at a rate five times higher than the national average.
Union Pacific operated a creosote wood treatment plant at the railyard until 1985. For decades, creosote was dumped at the site.
Source: www.click2houston.com
PEPSICO, FACEBOOK SUPPORT DUCKS UNLIMITED WATER REPLENISHMENT PROJECT NEAR DALLAS
Corporate and conservation partners are coming together and enhancing wetlands on Texas’ Richland Creek Wildlife Management Area (WMA) to improve wildlife habitat and water resources in the Trinity River Basin.
Ducks Unlimited, working in partnership with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), will construct approximately 206 acres of new wetlands within the WMA. Water from the Trinity River will flood the wetland complex during the winter to provide habitat for a variety of bird species, and in the spring, water from the wetlands will flow back into the river. The design of the wetlands should reduce sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorous levels in the water, which will help improve water quality overall in the Trinity River by reconditioning more than 200 million gallons of water annually.
“The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department is excited to be working alongside Ducks Unlimited and the Texas Water Action Collaborative on this important project,” said John Silovsky, Wildlife Division Director at Texas Parks and Wildlife. “Ducks Unlimited is a long-standing partnership that has provided direct assistance to TPWD to construct approximately 1,350 acres of wetland habitat on Richland Creek WMA since 1987.”
The Texas Water Action Collaborative (TxWAC) partners PepsiCo, Facebook, and the Bonneville Environmental Foundation along with a private family foundation, are also supporting the project. Led by Texan by Nature, TxWAC is a coalition of industry, nonprofit and governmental organizations established in 2021 to invest in efforts along the Upper Trinity River that yield positive water quality and quantity returns. The collaborative chose to start with the Upper Trinity Basin because so many people in Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, the two largest human and corporate populations in the state of Texas, depend on the Trinity River system.
“As one of the world’s largest food and beverage companies, we recognize that PepsiCo not only has an opportunity but a responsibility to use our scale and reach to ensure a more sustainable future,” said Tim Carey, Vice President of Sustainability at PepsiCo Beverages North America. “We recently announced PepsiCo Positive, a strategic end-to-end transformation of our business and supply chain, with sustainability at the center of how we will create growth and value by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for the planet and people. We’re proud to put that into action through a partnership with Ducks Unlimited to implement this important water replenishment project in the Trinity River Basin.”
Richland Creek WMA is managed by the TPWD and is adjacent to Richland Chambers Reservoir, which was built by the Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD) in the 1980s to help meet the growing water supply needs of the Dallas-Fort Worth region. The creation of the WMA helped mitigate wildlife habitat loss resulting from the construction of the reservoir.
“We are so pleased to be a part of the Texas Water Action Collaborative,” said DU Director of Development Bob Locke. “It’s been a great opportunity to bring together corporate and foundation partners to an already strong working relationship with TPWD and Texan by Nature. Adequate conservation of natural resources, especially water, will take the combined efforts of all of us, and projects like this are proving grounds for our ability to come together and make it happen.”
Since its construction, the TPWD has worked closely with TRWD to develop an extensive wetland treatment system on the WMA that currently covers over 5,000 acres and helps treat raw Trinity River Water before it enters the reservoir and is eventually delivered to municipal and industrial water users. This highly successful collaboration is the model for the new project that will provide similar benefits to fish and wildlife and water quality in the Trinity River.
“Collaborative cross-industry partnerships for conservation yield impactful results and accelerate conservation action,” says Joni Carswell, CEO and President of Texan by Nature, “Texas’ population of 29 million people is expected to double by 2050, putting pressure on the state’s land, water, wildlife, and infrastructure. As the 10th largest economy in the world with a GDP of $1.9 trillion, new water opportunities and conservation investments are needed to maintain economic leadership.”
Source: texanbynature.org
Railroad Commission of Texas Chairman Wayne Christian Statement on EPA’s Proposed Methane Rule
Railroad Commission of Texas Chairman Wayne Christian issued the following statement regarding new methane standards proposed by the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
“While Americans are paying $144 million more for gas per day than in the past, the Biden administration continues their efforts to tax and regulate the oil and gas industry out of existence,” said Christian. “Texas is the number one oil and gas producer in the nation, and these continued anti -oil and -gas policies will kill jobs, stifle economic growth, and make America more reliant of foreign nations to provide reliable energy.”
“It’s hypocritical to kill clean fossil fuel jobs here in America claiming it ensures a clean environment, and then beg our foreign adversaries to produce more using much less environment-friendly methods. The U.S. is a global leader in reducing emissions, not through regulation – but technological innovation. In fact, over the last fifty years, the six major pollutants regulated by the EPA have fallen by 77 percent while the U.S. economy grew 285 percent and its population by 60 percent,” continued Christian.
“With a looming global energy supply crisis and inflation on the rise, we need more economic certainty not less; we need more oil and gas production, not more clean energy fantasies,” said Christian. “I remain committed to ensuring Texans have access to plentiful, reliable, and affordable energy.”
Source: www.rrc.texas.gov
US Department of Labor schedules meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health, Nov. 16
The U.S. Department of Labor has scheduled a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health from 1-5 p.m. EST, Nov. 16, via teleconference and WebEx.
The tentative agenda includes updates from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and discussions about risk-based safety and OSHA’s work on heat illness.
Submit comments and requests to speak at http://www.regulations.gov, the Federal eRulemaking Portal, and refer to Docket No. OSHA-2021-0001. Read the Federal Register notice for more information. All comments must be submitted by Nov. 9.
The meeting is open to the public. The teleconference dial-in number is 1-800-621-7762 and the passcode is 2239082. Join the meeting via WebEx and use the password, Welcome! 24.
NACOSH advises, consults with, and makes recommendations to the Secretaries of Labor and Health and Human Services on matters relating to the administration of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, including regulatory, research, compliance assistance, and enforcement issues.
Source: www.osha.gov