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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/Photo Essay on Canada's Filthy Tar Sands - This Is Why Keystone XL Must Be Stopped
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Robert van Waarden, an excellent photographer and friend of DeSmogBlog, has compiled this great visual essay on Canada’s filthy tar sands to show people just a few of the reasons why the disastrous...
us/Halliburton CEO Instructs Underling To Sip New Fracking Fluid At Gas Industry Conference
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Halliburton Chief Executive Officer Dave Lesar touted the safety of the company’s new CleanStim fracking fluid during a keynote address at a gas industry conference in Colorado earlier this month. ...
us/East Africa Food Crisis: 48 Hour Fundraiser This Weekend To Combat Famine and Drought
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Please join DeSmogBlog and a network of environmental organizations, websites, nonprofits, and social media mavens this weekend in a 48-hour fundraiser to benefit the 12 million people fighting to ...
us/Interview with 'Kivalina' Author Christine Shearer - Trivia Challenge For Free Copy
ByBrendan DeMelle
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I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Christine Shearer, author of “Kivalina: A Climate Change Story,” an important new book that probes some of the tangible consequences of climate change de...
us/EIA's Politically Dictated “Garbage” Subsidy Report Obtained And Released Publicly
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The Checks and Balances Project has obtained a copy of the controversial Energy Information Administration report that was called “garbage” by EIA Acting Administrator Howard Gruenspecht.  The poll...
us/EIA Head Objected to Politically Dictated “Garbage” Subsidy Report, But Delivers it Anyway
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Stephen Lacey from ClimateProgress on Tuesday detailed a letter sent to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) by three GOP House members asking the EIA to use loaded assumptions in running it...
us/NY Times Editorial Urges Obama Administration To Reject Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The New York Times editorial today calls on the State Department and President Obama to reject the disastrous Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which it correctly labels the “wrong pipeline for the w...
us/Stephen Colbert Skewers Talisman Energy Over Gas Fracking Coloring Book
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Stephen Colbert devoted a must-see segment of The Colbert Report last night to the subject of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), mocking gas company Talisman Terry for its coloring book propaganda, “...
us/Denial-a-Palooza 6: Heartland's Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, Courtesy of Koch, Scaife & Exxon
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The Heartland Institute is convening a who’s-who of the global warming denial machine in Washington, DC over the next two days for the sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC6). See...
us/Denial For Hire: Willie Soon’s Career Fueled by Big Oil, Coal and Koch Money
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Willie Soon, the notorious climate denier who has made a career out of attacking the IPCC and climate scientists, has received over $1 million in funding from Big Oil and coal industry sponsors ove...