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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The State Department has released the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the proposed northern leg of the controversial and long-embattled TransCanada Keystone XL tar sand...
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โ€œFrackNation,โ€ the documentary film about hydraulic fracturing (โ€œfrackingโ€) with close conservative movement ties, recently had its showing cancelled at Winona, Minnesota's annual Frozen River Film...
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A DeSmogBlog investigation has revealedย Environmental Resources Management Inc. (ERM Group) โ€”ย the contractor performing the U.S. State Department's environmental reviewย for the northern half of Tra...
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On December 20, both chambers of the U.S. Congress passed a little-noticed bill to expedite permitting for hydraulic fracturing (โ€œfrackingโ€) on public lands in the Bakken Shale basin, located predo...
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On January 2, the Pipeline andย Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a major safety alert, declaring oil obtained via hydraulic fracturing (โ€œfrackingโ€) in the Bakken Shale may be...
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On December 30, the same day aย Burlington Northern Sante Fe (BNSF)ย oil train derailed and explodedย in Casselton,ย North Dakota,ย Warren Buffettย โ€”ย owner of holding company giant Berkshire Hathaway, wh...
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What's the U.S. congressional response to the safety issues with the 485-mile southern half of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline raised by Public Citizen's Texas office? Mostly what Simon & Garfun...
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Only Barack Obama knows the fate ofย the northern half of TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. ย But in the meantime, TransCanada is preparing the southern half of the line to open for comme...
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The conservative UK-basedย Centre for Policy Studiesย recently published a study on the climate change impacts ofย hydraulic fracturing (โ€œfrackingโ€)ย for shale gas. The skinny: it's yet another case st...
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Former Chesapeake Energy CEO and Founderย Aubrey McClendon is back in the hydraulic fracturing (โ€œfrackingโ€) game in Ohio's Utica Shale in a big way,ย receiving a permit to frack five wells from the O...