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Brendan DeMelle

Brendan DeMelle is Executive Director of DeSmog. He is also a writer specializing in media, politics, and disinformation. He also serves as Chair of DeSmog UK, and lives in Seattle, Washington.

Articles by Brendan DeMelle

us/Greenpeace Calls On SEC To Investigate TransCanada’s Inflated Jobs Claims
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Greenpeace USA President Phil Radford sent a formal complaint this week to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) calling for an investigation into TransCanada’s use of wildly inflated jobs f...
us/Will The Global Warming Policy Foundation’s Seed Funder Be Revealed?
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Who is funding the shadowy front groups that represent the interests of polluters by sowing doubt about climate change? One of the most aggressive climate denial “think” tanks spreading misinformat...
us/Rick Mercer's Hilarious Takedown of the "Radical Foreign Interests" Echo Chamber
ByBrendan DeMelle
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This Rick Mercer video started making the rounds several days ago, but in case you missed it, it's a hilarious skewering of the “radical foreign interests” talking point that the 'ethical oil' crow...
us/To Infinity and Beyond: Media Matters Exposes Echo Chamber On Bogus Keystone XL Jobs Claims
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Media Matters for America produced this spot-on video to highlight the manner in which the totally bogus Keystone XL jobs figures were echoed and inflated by Fox News and other media.   Media Matte...
us/Citizens United Protesters Rename Supreme Court the "U.S. Supreme Koch"
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Protesters marked the second anniversary of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling by unfurling a banner reading “U.S. Supreme Koch” on the court house steps. The action is part of a week-long ...
us/Shale Gas Bubble: Bloomberg News Confirms NY Times Finding That Fracking Boom Is a Bust
ByBrendan DeMelle
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As news outlets across America take a more rigorous look at shale gas and fracking issues, it’s encouraging to see how the media coverage is finally starting to cut through the oil industry’s misle...
us/API’s New ‘Vote 4 Energy’ Ad Campaign Is Thinly Veiled Election Year Bullying
ByBrendan DeMelle
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American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard today announced the oil and gas industry’s latest election-year scare campaign to threaten the demise of the U.S. economy unless Big Oil gets its ...
us/Ecuador Appeals Court Upholds $18 Billion Verdict Against Chevron For Amazon Destruction
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Great news today in the ongoing legal battle over the oil giant Chevron's destruction of the Amazon.   Mike G reports on The Understory blog at Rainforest Action Network that an appeals court in Ec...
us/Andy Revkin Interviews Franke James On Dot Earth: Canada's Approach To Inconvenient Art
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Andy Revkin has a great interview with Canadian artist Franke James on his Dot Earth blog at The New York Times. DeSmogBlog previously covered the harrasment and censorship that Franke James says s...
us/Signs of Action On Climategate Hacker Investigation: DOJ and UK Police Probe Denier Bloggers
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Fantastic news for a change - the Guardian reports that the UK police are finally making some concerted attempts to identify the hacker behind the criminal invasion of the University of East Anglia...