Steve Horn

About

Steve Horn is the owner of the consultancy Horn Communications & Research Services, which provides public relations, content writing, and investigative research work products to a wide range of nonprofit and for-profit clients across the world.

An investigative reporter on the climate beat for over a decade and former Research Fellow for DeSmog between 2011-2018, his work has appeared in outlets such as The Guardian, The Intercept, Wisconsin Watch, The Coast News, and elsewhere. His work has been cited in a U.S. Senate report, federal litigation, and by publications such as The New York Times, Bloomberg, The New Yorker, Voice of San Diego, La Jornada, Democracy Now!, among outlets.

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It was a tumultuous week in the world of hydraulic fracturing (โ€œfrackingโ€) for shale oil and gas, with a few of the biggest companies in the U.S. announcing temporary shutdowns at their drilling op...
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Warren Buffett,ย one of the world's richest menย andย aย campaign fundraiser and donorย for Hillary Clinton's presidential run, has made headlines lately for theย attacks on rooftop solar energyย launched...
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On February 9, just days before the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a stayย freezing President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan (CPP).ย  While many art...
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Proponents of lifting the U.S. crude oil export banย trumpeted the rhetorical questionย that since U.S. geopolitical rival Iran can export its oil, why can't the United States? But now that โ€œliqui...
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As the U.S. presidential race dominates the media, it is easy to forget that both chambers of the U.S. Congress are currently in session. The U.S. Senate has put a major energy bill on the table, t...
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As the February 1 Iowa Caucuses loom, the Hawkeye State sits as the proverbial last man standing in the decision whether to grant pipeline giant Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) a permit for its Dako...
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Aubrey McClendon, the embattled former CEO and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy, has announced his entrance into Argentina to begin hydraulic fracturing (โ€œfrackingโ€)ย in the country's Vaca Muerta Sha...
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The shenanigans of the โ€œKochtopusโ€ have garnered most of the headlines โ€”ย including hereย โ€” pertaining to reviews of New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer's new book,ย Dark Money. But the Koch Brothers ...
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The just-published book โ€œDark Money,โ€ penned by New Yorker staff reporter Jane Mayer, reveals that the Koch Brothers hired the former commissioner of the New York Police Department (NYPD)ย โ€” and his...
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A PowerPoint presentation obtained from a source and published by DeSmog in August 2013 has made its way into a major hydraulic fracturing (โ€œfrackingโ€)ย relatedย legal case, which is set to go to tri...