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.

onJun 3, 2013 @ 18:54 PDT

If an ecologically hazardous accident happens to TransCanada's Keystone XL (KXL) tar sands pipeline, we can't say we weren't forewarned.ย That's the latest from a press release and YouTube video rec...
onJun 3, 2013 @ 05:00 PDT

Big Oil has deployed the โ€œTobacco Playbookโ€ once again, this time in response to the release of โ€œGasland 2.โ€ Itย comes in the form of a documentary film titled, โ€œFrackNation,โ€ whose co-directors' f...
onMay 30, 2013 @ 11:45 PDT

The shale gas industry has performed the โ€œshock doctrineโ€ at the 11th hour of the 2013 Illinois State Legislature's debate over hydraulic fracturing (โ€œfrackingโ€), the toxic horizontal drllling proc...
onMay 30, 2013 @ 03:00 PDT

Theย Checks and Balances Projectย hasย announced that the U.S. State Department's Office of Inspector Generalย (OIG) has launched a conflicts-of-interest investigation into dirty dealings pertaining to...
onMay 29, 2013 @ 15:49 PDT

Today, 12 groups sent a strong message to the Koch Brothersย consisting of over 500,000 signaturesย delivered toย Tribune Company Newspapersย protesting the prospective โ€œKochtopusโ€ buyout of the news o...
onMay 28, 2013 @ 05:00 PDT

Part one of theย DeSmogBlog investigation of โ€œFrackNationโ€ย - a film made in response to โ€œGasland 2โ€ - honed in on the past track records and funding streams of co-directors Phelim McAleer andย Annย Mc...
onMay 21, 2013 @ 09:36 PDT

โ€œGasland 2โ€ screened yesterday in Normal, IL and DeSmogBlogย was there to gain a sneak peak of the documentary set for a July 8 HBO nationalย premiere.ย  Josh Fox's documentary played at the Normal Th...
onMay 20, 2013 @ 10:09 PDT

On May 16, the Obama Interior Department announced its long-awaited rules governing hydraulic fracturing (โ€œfrackingโ€)ย on federalย lands. As part of its 171-page document of rules, the U.S. Bureau o...
onMay 18, 2013 @ 06:00 PDT

Friday is the proverbial โ€œtake out the trash dayโ€ for the release of bad news among public relationsย practitionersย and this Friday was noย different.ย  In that vein, yesterday the Obama Department of...
onMay 15, 2013 @ 05:00 PDT

There are few better examples of a โ€œsacrifice zoneโ€ for ExxonMobil and the fossil fuel industry at-large than Faulkner County, Arkansas and the counties surroundingย it.ย  Six weeks have passed since...