Responsible Resources

<div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" lang="en"><p><b>Responsible Resources</b> is a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/501%28c%29%283%29" title="501(c)(3)">501(c)(3)</a> non-profit group that was registered in 2007 with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Internal_Revenue_Service" title="Internal Revenue Service">Internal Revenue Service</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Responsible_Resources#cite_note-0">[1]</a></sup>

On February 26, 2008, Alex Kaplun of <i>Greenwire</i> reported that former staffers of former Republican Representative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Pombo" title="Richard Pombo">Richard Pombo</a> and ex-<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/House_Committee_on_Natural_Resources" title="House Committee on Natural Resources">House Committee on Natural Resources</a> aides <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Brian_Kennedy_%28Responsible_Resources%29" title="Brian Kennedy (Responsible Resources)">Brian Kennedy</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lisa_Wallace&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lisa Wallace (page does not exist)">Lisa Wallace</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dan_Kish&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dan Kish (page does not exist)">Dan Kish</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rob_Gordon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rob Gordon (page does not exist)">Rob Gordon</a>

had launched Responsible Resources with an ad campaign asserting that

taxes on energy companies are a threat to affordable and reliable

energy.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Responsible_Resources#cite_note-1">[2]</a></sup>

The House had just passed a bill that would repeal a manufacturing

tax credit to large, integrated oil companies and other credits targeted

at the oil industry and redirect the money to continue tax credits for

the development of renewable energy resources like wind and solar power,

as well as energy efficiency, which were slated to end this year.<sup id="cite_ref-Hill_2-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Responsible_Resources#cite_note-Hill-2">[3]</a></sup>

Kennedy had most recently served as a spokesman to House Minority Leader <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner">John Boehner</a>

(Republican of Ohio). He would not disclose the group's budget, but

said it would not take corporate donations. Kennedy described the group

as "an educational resource principally for members of Congress and

their aides with the ultimate goal of growing large enough to influence

the debate beyond the Beltway." The group plans to publish a desk

reference on energy resources in the United States, including how much

energy is needed to power the country in the future and how much of that

energy could come from the United States. <sup id="cite_ref-Hill_2-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Responsible_Resources#cite_note-Hill-2">[3]</a></sup>

Wallace is a former chief financial officer to the House Natural

Resources Committee. Gordon, president of the new group, is the founder

and president of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Wilderness_Institute" title="National Wilderness Institute">National Wilderness Institute</a>, which has challenged the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Endangered_Species_Act" title="Endangered Species Act">Endangered Species Act</a>. Kish retired as a senior adviser to the committee after serving as the committee’s chief of staff in the 1990s.</p>

<h2>Contents</h2>

<ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Responsible_Resources#Personnel"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Personnel</span></a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Responsible_Resources#Board_of_Directors"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Board of Directors</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Responsible_Resources#National_advisors"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">National advisors</span></a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Responsible_Resources#Contact_information"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Contact information</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Responsible_Resources#SourceWatch_resources"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">SourceWatch resources</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Responsible_Resources#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Responsible_Resources#References"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Responsible_Resources#Articles"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Articles</span></a></li></ul>

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<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Personnel">Personnel</span></h2>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rob_Gordon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rob Gordon (page does not exist)">Rob Gordon</a>, founder and President</li></ul>

<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Board_of_Directors">Board of Directors</span></h3>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carl_Michael_Smith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carl Michael Smith (page does not exist)">Carl Michael Smith</a>, Chairman. Smith is an energy attorney and consultant.</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_Stroup&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard Stroup (page does not exist)">Richard Stroup</a>, Director. Stroup is a Visiting Professor of Economics at North Carolina State University and a Senior Fellow at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Property_and_Environmental_Research_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Property and Environmental Research Center (page does not exist)">Property and Environmental Research Center</a>, a think tank that promotes <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Free-market_environmentalism&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Free-market environmentalism (page does not exist)">free-market environmentalism</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_L._Testwuide_III&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert L. Testwuide III (page does not exist)">Robert L. Testwuide III</a>, Director. Testwuide is a Vice President and Wealth Management Advisor with Merrill Lynch’s Global Private Client Group.</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bruce_Yandle" title="Bruce Yandle">Bruce Yandle</a>,

Director. Yandle is Professor of Economics Emeritus and Dean Emeritus

of Clemson University’s College of Business & Behavioral Science.

Yandle is also a Senior Fellow with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Property_and_Environmental_Research_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Property and Environmental Research Center (page does not exist)">Property and Environmental Research Center</a>.</li></ul>

<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="National_advisors">National advisors</span></h3>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ernest_L.Daman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ernest L. Daman (page does not exist)">Ernest L. Daman</a>, Advisor. Daman is Chairman Emeritus of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foster_Wheeler_Development_Corporation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Foster Wheeler Development Corporation (page does not exist)">Foster Wheeler Development Corporation</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lisa_M.Jaeger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lisa M. Jaeger (page does not exist)">Lisa M. Jaeger</a>, Advisor. Jaeger is a partner in the law firm <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bracewell_Giuliani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bracewell Giuliani (page does not exist)">Bracewell Giuliani</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Craig_Manson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Craig Manson (page does not exist)">Craig Manson</a>,

Advisor. Judge Craig Manson is a lecturer in law at University of the

Pacific, McGeorge and was appooinrted by the Bush administration as

Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks in the Department of

Interior between 2002 and 2006.</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kathleen_Hartnett_White&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kathleen Hartnett White (page does not exist)">Kathleen Hartnett White</a>, Advisor. A former Chairman and Commissioner of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Texas_Commission_on_Environmental_Quality&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (page does not exist)">Texas Commission on Environmental Quality</a> (TCEQ).</li></ul>

<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Contact_information">Contact information</span></h2>

<p>Responsible Resources

PO Box 320247

Alexandria, VA 22320

Phone: (703) 535-3004

Fax: (703) 647-6259

Email: info AT resres.org

Website: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.responsibleresources.org/">http://www.responsibleresources.org/</a></p>

<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="SourceWatch_resources">SourceWatch resources</span></h2>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Brian_Kennedy_%28Responsible_Resources%29" title="Brian Kennedy (Responsible Resources)">Brian Kennedy (Responsible Resources)</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Wilderness_Institute" title="National Wilderness Institute">National Wilderness Institute</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Pombo" title="Richard Pombo">Richard Pombo</a></li></ul>

<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span></h2>

<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h3>

<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Responsible_Resources#cite_ref-0">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/pqShowGsReport.do?npoId=100866055">"Responsible Resources"</a>, Guidestar, accessed March 2008.</span></li><li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Responsible_Resources#cite_ref-1">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2008/02/26/2/">"Former Pombo staffers launch advocacy group"</a>, <i>Greenwire</i>, February 26, 2008. (Registration required).</span></li><li id="cite_note-Hill-2">↑ <sup><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Responsible_Resources#cite_ref-Hill_2-0">3.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Responsible_Resources#cite_ref-Hill_2-1">3.1</a></sup> <span class="reference-text">Jim Snyder, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/business--lobby/former-gop-aides-form-new-energy-group-2008-02-27.html">Former GOP aides form new energy group</a>," <i>The Hill</i>, February 27, 2008.</span></li></ol>

<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Articles">Articles</span></h3>

<ul><li>Mary Ann Akers And Paul Kane, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/16/AR2008011603627_2.html">"Save the Oil Companies!"</a>, "In The Loop", <i>Washington Post</i>, January 17, 2008.</li><li>Jim Snyder, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/business--lobby/former-gop-aides-form-new-energy-group-2008-02-27.html">Former GOP Aides Form New Energy Group</a>," <i>The Hill</i>, February 27, 2008.</li><li>Beth Wellington, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bethwellington.blogspot.com/2008/02/ousted-rep-pombos-aides-set-up-shop-as.html">"Ousted Rep. Pombo's Aides Set Up Shop as "Responsible Resources"</a>, <i>The Writing Corner</i>, February 29, 2008.</li></ul>

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