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'''Responsible Resources''' is a [[501(c)(3)]] non-profit group that was registered in 2007 with the [[Internal Revenue Service]].<ref>[http://www.guidestar.org/pqShowGsReport.do?npoId=100866055 "Responsible Resources"], Guidestar, accessed March 2008.</ref>
On February 26, 2008, Alex Kaplun of ''Greenwire'' reported that former staffers of former Republican Representative [[Richard Pombo]] and ex-[[House Resource Committee on Natural Resources]] aides [[Brian Kennedy]], [[Lisa Wallace]], [[Dan Kish]] and [[Rob Gordon]] had launched Responsible Resources with an ad campaign asserting that taxes on energy companies are a threat to affordable and reliable energy.<ref>[http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2008/02/26/2/ "Former Pombo staffers launch advocacy group"], ''Greenwire'', February 26, 2008. (Registration required).</ref>
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.<ref name="Hill">Jim Snyder, "[http://thehill.com/business--lobby/former-gop-aides-form-new-energy-group-2008-02-27.html Former GOP aides form new energy group]," ''The Hill'', February 27, 2008.</ref>
Kennedy, had most recently served as a spokesman to House Minority Leader [[John Boehner]] (R-Republican of Ohio). He would not disclose the group's budget, but said it would not take corporate donations and . Kennedy described it 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.<ref name="Hill"/>
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 [[National Wilderness Institute]], which has challenged the [[Endangered Species Act]]. Kish retired as a senior adviser to the committee after serving as the committee’s chief of staff in the 1990s.
==Personnel==
*[[Bruce Yandle]], 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 [[Property and Environmental Research Center]].
===National Advisorsadvisors===
*[[Ernest L. Daman]], Advisor. Daman is Chairman Emeritus of [[Foster Wheeler Development Corporation]]
*[[Lisa M. Jaeger]], Advisor. Jaeger is a partner in the law firm [[Bracewell Giuliani]]
*[[Kathleen Hartnett White]], Advisor. A former Chairman and Commissioner of the [[Texas Commission on Environmental Quality]] (TCEQ).
==Contact Informationinformation==
Responsible Resources </br>
PO Box 320247</br>
Website: http://www.responsibleresources.org/
==Articles and ResourcesSourceWatch resources== ==External links==
===References===
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===Related SourceWatch Articles=== ==External Article==
* Jim Snyder, "[http://thehill.com/business--lobby/former-gop-aides-form-new-energy-group-2008-02-27.html Former GOP Aides Form New Energy Group]," ''The Hill'', February 27, 2008.
*Beth Wellington, [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"], ''The Writing Corner'', February 29, 2008.
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