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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TransCanada has taken a page out of former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's playbook and deployed a public relations โ€œcharm offensiveโ€ in Texas, home of the southern leg of its Keystone X...
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Onย March 29, 2013, ExxonMobil's Pegasus tar sands pipeline ruptured in Mayflower, Arkansas, sending hundreds of thousands of gallons of diluted bitumen (โ€œdilbitโ€) pouring down the town's streets. N...
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During hisย two-day visit this week to Kiev, Ukraine, Vice President Joe Biden unfurled President Barack Obama's โ€œU.S. Crisis Support Package for Ukraine.โ€ A key part of the package involves promoti...
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The political carnival that is the prelude to the Iowa caucuses has started over a year and a half early. At the center of it this time around: a game of political hot potato over the northern leg ...
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Reutersย andย Politicoย brokeย a major story today thatย TransCanada's northern leg of theย Keystone XLย tar sandsย pipeline will not be decided on until after the 2014 mid-termย elections. โ€œThe U.S. State ...
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A legal controversy โ€” critics would say scandalย โ€”ย has erupted in Alaska's statehouse over the future of its natural gasย bounty. It's not so much an issue of the gas itself, but who gets to decide h...
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The subtitle of the newly released documentary film Big Men is โ€œeveryone wants to be bigโ€ and to say the film covers a โ€œbigโ€ topic is to put itย mildly. Executive produced by Brad Pitt and directed ...
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When most environmentalists and folks who follow pipeline markets think of TransCanada, they think of the proposed northern half of its Keystone XL tar sandsย pipeline.ย  Flying beneath the public ra...
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Behind nearly every major corporate policy push there's an accompanying well-coordinated public relations and propaganda campaign. As it turns out, the oil and gas industry's push to exportย liquefi...
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Is it conventional crude or tar sands? That is the question. And it's one with high stakes, toย boot.ย  The BP Whiting refinery in Indiana spilled between 470 and 1228 gallonsย of oil (or is it tar sa...