Communities across the US and throughout the world are finding ways to creatively respond to the specific challenges oil and gas development pose to their region.
Here are some quick links
to resources on this page:
Publications
Organizations
- National
- Local (listed by state)
- International/Global
VIDEOS
Santa Fe vs. Tecton: A Community Stands Together. Made in collaboration with the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, this piece tells the story of how one community pulled together and took action to create one of the strongest ordinances in the country.
Santa Fe's Oil and Gas Ordinance
Above, watch Theo Colborn, Founder and President of The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX), read a letter to the president about chemicals disrupting our bodies. Colborn is an enviornmental health analyst, and best known for her studies on the health effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals. Dr. Colborn's work has promoted the enactment of new laws around the world and redireted the research of academicians, governments, and the private sector.
Pro Publica's Fracking Series
A great resource of articles and investigations into the environmental threat posed by the fracking industry
Our Drinking Water at Risk: What EPA and the Oil and Gas Industry Don't Want Us to Know About Hydraulic Fracturing.
TEDX - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange: Health Effects Spreadsheet and Summary
TEDX - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange: Drilling Chemichals Summary
Endocrinology - one of the foremost biomedical journals in the world. Article: Estrogen and Androgen Receptor Activites of Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals and Surface and Ground Water in a Drilling-Dense Region
Wrecking the Rockies (NRDC, OnEarth, Summer 2006)
By Michelle Nijhuis
Organizations and individuals working on gas and oil issues
Below, you will find only a partial list of the key organizations offering legal support or other resources to assist communities in their efforts to safeguard the health of their land, water, and people.
This list is continually growing - a few years ago there were only a few organizations working on these isuses, now there are hundreds! More appear every day.
Connect with organizations or individuals in your local area.
If you have a group that you would like us to include in this list, contact us.
Please note: the organizations and websites listed below are solely responsible for their content and actions.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
The Endocrine Disruption Exchange
Environmental Priorities Network
NRDC (National Resources Defense Council)
The Oil and Gas Accountability Project – Earthworks
Shaletest.org, and Calvin Tillman, former Mayor, Dish Texas
Western Organization of Resource Councils
Alabama Illinois Montana Ohio Vermont
Alaska Indiana N. Carloina Oregon W. Virginia
Arkansas Iowa N. Dakota Pennsylvania Wisconsin
California Maryland Nevada S. Dakota Wyoming
Colorado Mass. New Jersey Tennessee
Florida Michigan New Mexico Texas
Idaho Minnesota New York Utah
Faulkner County Concerned Citizens Group of Arkansas
Omni Center for Peace and Justice
The League of Women Voters of Arkansas
Arkansas Conservation Alliance
Community Health Councils (L.A.)
Communities for a Better Environment
Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Elder Creek Center for the Land
MOMS Advocating Sustainability
National Grassroots Coalition (L.A.)
Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains
SLO Clean Water Action (Americans Against Fracking)
Battlement Mesa Concerned Citizens
Boulder County Citizens for Community Rights
Citizens for a Health Community (Delta County)
Colorado Oil & Gas Association
Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission
Colorado Springs Citizens for Community Rights
Community for Sustainable Energy (Ft Collins)
Elbert County Oil and Gas Interest Group
Grand Valley Citizens Alliance
High Country Conservation Advocates
No Fracking in Colorado Springs
Renewable Communities Alliance/GrassRoots EnErgy activist Network (GREEN)
Rio Grande Watchdogs (San Louis Valley)
Unitarian Universalist Church of Greeley
Save Blackwater River State Forest
Idaho Rural Council
Global Warming Solutions Group of Central Illinois
Progressive Democrats of Greater Springfield
Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment (SAFE)
Michiana Peace and Justice Coalition
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
Berkshire Environmental Action Team
Citizens Against Drilling on Public Lands
Kent County Water Conservation
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation
Michigan Student Sustainability Coalition
Northern Plains Resource Council
Save Nevada’s Water: Ban Fracking in Nevada
Blue Ridge Road Coalition
Bomb Bomb BBQ
CWA Local 1081
The Franciscan Response to Fracking
IFPTE Local 194
Ironbound Community Corporation
New Jersey Highlands Coalition
NJ State Industrial Union Council
NJ-CAN
North Jersey Public Policy Network
Reformed Church of Highland Park
Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey
Environment New Mexico
Gila Resources Information Project
Las Vegas NM Peace & Justice Center
New Mexico Environmental Law Center (Santa Fe)
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
Rio Grande Watchdogs (San Louis Valley)
Southwest Environmental Center
Capital District Against Fracking
Catskill Citizens For Safe Energy
Citizens’ Environmental Coalition
City of Binghamton Against Fracking
Colchester Programming Partners
Concerned Citizens of Rural Broome
Concerned Citizens of the Town of Chenango
Concerned Citizens of Ulysses
Damascus Citizens for Sustainability
Danby Action
Elmirans & Friends Against Fracking
Environmental Justice Committee SUNY Cortland CGIS
Frack Free Genesee
Gas Drilling Awareness for Cortland County
Grassroots Environmental Education
Groton Resource Awareness Coalition
New Yorkers Against Fracking
Nurse Rise – Nurses for Safe Water
Plymouth Friends of Clean Water
Residents Against Fracking Tioga
Rochester Defense Against Fracking
Rochesterians Concerned About Unsafe Shale-gas Extraction
Sharon Springs Against Hyrdofracking
Society for the Preservation of Democracy & Human Rights
Southern Cayuga Anti-Fracking Alliance (SCAYAFA)
Sullivan Area Citizens for Responsible Energy Development (SACRED)
System Change not Climate Change
Three Parks Independent Democrats
Vestal Residents for Safe Energy
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
Common Ground Green Building Center
Athens County Fracking Action Network
Ban Hydro-Fracking in Greenfield Township Fairfield County OH
Communities for Safe and Sustainable Energy (CSSE)
Concerned Citizens of Medina County
Cuyahoga County Concerned Citizens
Defenders of the Earth Outreach Mission
Faith Communities Together for Frack Awareness (FaCT)
Frack Free Ohio
Fracking Free Geauga
Mothers Against Drilling in our Neighborhoods
North Central Ohio (NCO) Concerned Citizens
Northeast Ohio Gas Accountability Project
Northwest Ohio Alliance to Stop Fracking
Occupy Columbus
Ohio Alliance for People and Environment
Ohio Student Environmental Coalition
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, Ohio Province
Southeast Ohio Alliance to Save Our Water
Western Environmental Law Center
Coos Waterkeeper
Environment and Human Rights Advisory
Oregon Citizens Against the Pipeline (OCAP)
Oregon Rural Action (La Grande)
Citizens for Clean Water
Communities United for Rights and Environment
Damascus Citizens for Sustainability (Damascus, upper Delaware Basin)
Diagnostic Energy Auditors of Western Pennsylvania
Energy in Denial
Fracking Truth Alliance of Lawrence
Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition of Luzerne County
Green Party of Montgomery County
Interfaith Sacred Earth Coalition
Leigh Valley Gas Truth
Occupy Well Street
Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water
Peters Township Marcellus Shale Awareness Group
Physicians for Social Responsibility Philadelphia
Pocono Environmental Coalition and Wildlife Society, Inc.
Yardley-Makefield Democratic Club
Dakota Rural Action - Brookings
Coalition for a Frack-Free Tennessee
Stop Fracking Around Chattanooga
Bluedaze - Drilling Reform for Texas - Texas Sharon
Dallas Area Residents For Responsible Drilling
Fort Worth Citizens Against Neighborhood Drilling
Fort Worth League of Neighborhoods
North Central Texas Communities Alliance
Living Rivers Colorado Riverkeeper
Vermont Natural Resources Council
Doddridge County Watershed Association
West Virginia Surface Owners’ Rights Organization (Charleston)
Powder River Basin Resource Council (Sheridan)
INTERNATIONAL/ GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS
Global Information Against Coal Seam Gas
Australia
Knitting Nannas Against Gas (KNAG)
Austria
Canada/ Quebec
Pour un moratoire sur la gaz de schiste (Quebec)
France
Ireland
Fracking Free Ireland(Fracking Free Europe as well)
New Zealand
Sweden
South Africa
Chase SHELL OIL out of the Karoo!
United Kingdom
Frack Off and here is their Facebook Page
NotForShale (N. Ireland, Belfast)
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