Resources

  • Dirty Energy Money: Find out how much oil money your elected representatives take.
  • Downwinders at Risk: Reducing toxic air pollution in North Texas.
  • Earthworks’ Oil and Gas Accountability Project: EARTHWORKS’ Oil & Gas Accountability Project works with tribal, urban and rural communities to protect their homes and the environment from the devastating impacts of oil and gas development.
  • Energy Policy Forum: Energy Policy Forum was launched by Deborah Rogers to address these timely questions. An open dialogue about the development of domestic energy resources including solutions and potential problems and pitfalls is both timely and much needed.
  • OpenSecrets.org: your nonpartisan guide to money’s influence on U.S. elections and public policy.
  • ShaleTest: A Non-Profit Organization providing environmental testing services, public speaking engagements and educational materials to private individuals and groups whose lives are affected by natural gas development.
  • GASLAND: When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND.
  • Houston Advanced Research Center HARC: HARC is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization based in The Woodlands, Texas dedicated to improving human and ecosystem well-being through the application of sustainability science and principles of sustainable development. HARC’s mission is to move knowledge to action to improve human well-being and the environment.
  • Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy: PSE provides a multi-disciplinary approach to identifying reasonable, healthy, and sustainable energy options for everyone. We will help empower citizens and policymakers by organizing and supplying objective, evidence-based information.
  • TEDX – The Endocrine Disruption Exchange: the only organization that focuses primarily on the human health and environmental problems caused by low-dose and/or ambient exposure to chemicals that interfere with development and function, called endocrine disruptors.
  • Texas Ethics Commission
  • Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
  • Texas Railroad Commission