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 โ€œRational Middle Energy Series,โ€ directed and produced by Gregory Kallenberg, is hot off the film rolls and has already been screened at an influential venue: the 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival. Kal...
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Has New York Governor Andrew Cuomo just made the southern tier of the state a โ€œsacrifice zone,โ€ as alleged by award-winning author and โ€œfracktivist,โ€ Sandra Steingraber? Was it a plot hatched by th...
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TransCanada was once in the limelight and targeted for its Keystone XL pipeline project. Now, with few eyes watching, it is pushing along two key pipeline projects that would bring two respective f...
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Erie, CO meetย Naoma, WV. Though seemingly different battles over different ecologically hazardous extractive processes โ€“ hydraulic fracturing (โ€œfrackingโ€) for unconventional gas versus mountaintop ...
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The Public Accountability Initiative (PAI) hasย upped the ante on DeSmogBlog's reporting on what we coined a โ€œShill Gas Studyโ€ recently conducted by SUNYย Buffalo. In our critique of the โ€œstudyโ€ we p...
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When does a study on the unconventional shale gas industry become a โ€œshill gas studyโ€? The quick answer: when nearly everyone writing and peer reviewing it has close ties to the industry they're pu...
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Ever wonder why a blooming green energy industry has faced such harsh opposition? Now, as the old adage goes, โ€œthe cat's out of the bag.โ€ The Guardianย todayย revealed the network of fossil-funded gr...
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Warren Buffett, the third wealthiest man on the planetย (net worth: $44 billion), often referred to as the โ€œOracle of Omaha,โ€ is the target of a May 5 action called for by Stop Coal B.C.ย Well, not B...
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19th Century German statesmanย Otto von Bismarckย onceย said, โ€œIf you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one beingย made.โ€ Theย American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), put on th...
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Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD)ย dropped a bombshell early this week, unveiling documentsย pertaining to the Royal Dutch Shell Oil 2008 Bodo...