Terry O'Rourke

Region: Coastal Plain

Topics: Litigation, Law, Pollution, Energy


Mr. O'Rourke is a hydrologist and attorney based in Houston who has worked on numerous civil and criminal environmental prosecutions for the Texas Attorney General's Office and the Harris County Attorney's Office since the early 1970s. As well, he has had a long interest in alternative energy and energy conservation, having run for the Texas Railroad Commission, served as an energy spokesman in the Carter White House, and developed a low-impact hydroelectric project in California.

Interviewed

October 2, 1999
Houston, Texas
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