Advocacy

See the links below to send a letter or op-ed to the Houston Chronicle, to let your city, state, and national elected officials know about your environmental health concerns, and to obtain access to public records maintained by state or local government officials.

  Houston Chronicle

Send letters (250 words or less) to:
Viewpoints
Houston Chronicle
PO Box 4260
Houston, Texas 77210
Email: viewpoints@chron.com
Fax: 713-362-3575

Send essays to:
Attention: Outlook Editor
Houston Chronicle
PO Box 4260
Houston, TX 77210
Email: outlook@chron.com
Fax: 713-362-3575

Elected Officials

City of Houston
 

Mayor White

PO Box 1562 

Houston, TX 77251

Phone: 713-247-2200

Email: mayor@cityofhouston.net

 

City Council

To find your council member, visit http://www.houstontx.gov/council/

State

State Senators and Representatives

Look up your state elected officials at www.capitol.state.tx.us/fyi/fyi.htm

National

President George W. Bush

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

president@whitehouse.gov

Texas Senators


Senator John Cornyn
517 Hart Senate Office Bldg
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
202-224-2934
202-228-2856 fax
E-mail: http://cornyn.senate.gov/contact/index.html

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
284 Russell Senate Office Bldg
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
202-224-5922
202-224-0776 fax
E-Mail: http://hutchison.senate.gov/e-mail.htm

Representatives

To find your Representative, visit www.house.gov

Public Records

You can use the Student Press Law Center letter generator form  at http://www.splc.org/foiletter.asp to request access to records held by a state or local government agency or body (e.g., public school district, state board of health, etc.). If you want to obtain records held by the federal government, click here.