DeSmog

Facebook-f X-twitter
Subscribe
Donate
Donate

DeSmog

Donate
Search
Search

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/East Anglia SwiftHack Email Nontroversy Returns: What You Need To Know
ByBrendan DeMelle
on

The desparate attempt by climate change deniers to sully climate scientists returns today with the release of 5,000 emails stolen back in 2009 during the original “Climategate” hacking of the Unive...
us/Gas Fracking Industry Using Military Psychological Warfare Tactics and Personnel In U.S. Communities
ByBrendan DeMelle
on

At the “Media & Stakeholder Relations: Hydraulic Fracturing Initiative 2011” conference last week in Houston, Matt Pitzarella, Director of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at Range Resou...
us/Inspector General To Investigate Keystone XL Conflicts
ByBrendan DeMelle
on

NRDC's Switchboard blog reports that the Inspector General will investigate the conflicts of interest and incompetence surrounding the Keystone XL pipeline permitting process. NRDC reports:  O...
us/Herman Cain at AFP: ‘I am the Koch Brothers’ Brother From Another Mother’
ByBrendan DeMelle
on

Wow. The GOP's Koch-Cain problem elevates to new heights today. At the Koch-funded Americans For Prosperity event today, Republican presidential contender Herman Cain told it like it is. “I am the ...
us/Obama - Not Hillary Clinton - Will Decide Keystone XL Pipeline Fate
ByBrendan DeMelle
on

In a clear sign that President Obama recognizes that Hillary Clinton is too compromised by conflict of interest given the web of crony tar sands lobbyists around her to make the decision on whether...
us/Massive Natural Gas Export Deal Inked by BG Group, So Much for Industry's "Domestic Energy" Claims
ByBrendan DeMelle
on

The natural gas industry's favorite public relations ploy about the necessity of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), the process through which “clean natural gas” is now procured, is that the patrioti...
us/Gas Industry Front Group Called Out By RFK Jr Attempts To Spin Facts Yet Again
ByBrendan DeMelle
on

The oil and gas industry has a long history of resisting public accountability and protective standards, and generally avoiding tough questions about its practices and attacking its critics. Just y...
us/Urban Heat Island – Favorite Skeptic Myth Debunked Again, This Time By Koch-Funded Science
ByBrendan DeMelle
on

Climate skeptics are once again proven wrong, and this time even Koch money can't skew the facts.   Have you heard the one from climate deniers that the “Urban Heat Island” effect has ruined all ...
us/Waxman Renews Request For Congress To Investigate Koch Industries Interest in Keystone XL Pipeline
ByBrendan DeMelle
on

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) today renewed his request to Reps. Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ed Whitfield (R-KY) that the House Committee on Energy and Commerce investigate Koch Industries' interest in the Ke...
us/Journalists Ask NYTimes To Set Disclosure of Conflicts Policy For Op-Ed Contributors
ByBrendan DeMelle
on

Back in June, I wrote about my effort to seek answers from The New York Times public editor’s office regarding the paper’s lack of a policy for disclosure of possible conflicts of interest among op...