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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/EXCLUSIVE: Documents Reveal Chevron’s Changing Tune In Ecuador Rainforest Destruction Case
ByBrendan DeMelle
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New documents uncovered in the ongoing legal battle over Chevron/Texaco’s destruction of the Ecuadorian rainforest show that, while Chevron recently labeled the guilty verdict and $18 billion fine ...
us/Shale Gas Industry Targeting B.C. Public Water Supplies For Fracking Boom
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The Tyee’s Ben Parfitt has a must-read piece today focusing on the huge amounts of drinking water that the shale gas industry is drawing from public water resources for hydraulic fracturing (fracki...
us/Major Investigative Series Into US-Canada Tar Sands Politics Launched Today at The Tyee
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Anyone concerned or simply intrigued by the controversy over Canada’s climate-wrecking tar sands needs to check out The Tyee homepage every day for the next few weeks. The Tyee’s tar sands investig...
us/Current GOP Is “Party of Science Deniers,” Waxman Says
ByBrendan DeMelle
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During a speech at the Center for American Progress Action Fund on Monday, Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) came out swinging against Republican climate science denial and political attacks again...
us/Third Piece in NY Times Series Shows EPA Internal Battle Over Natural Gas Fracking Threats
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The New York Times today released its third piece in a shocking series of articles revealing the health threats posed by the renegade U.S. natural gas industry. The latest piece documents how the E...
us/EPA Study Again Shows The Benefits Of The Clean Air Act To U.S. Economy
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday released its Second Prospective Report examining the benefits of the Clean Air Act amendments from 1990 up to 2020. The study confirms that the E...
us/Major Cuts To Pollution Control Spending On The Horizon In Canada
ByBrendan DeMelle
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A number of Canadian environmental policies and programs are facing significant budget cuts during the next year. Not surprisingly, reducing carbon emissions and air pollution are two of the areas ...
us/Must-Read NY Times Story On Gas Fracking Reveals Radioactive Wastewater Threat
ByBrendan DeMelle
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An incredible piece just broke in the New York Times showing that hydraulic fracking in the Marcellus Shale is drawing huge amounts of radioactivity up from the earth with the fracking fluids, ofte...
us/Natural Gas Industry Rhetoric Versus Reality
ByBrendan DeMelle
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As the recent natural gas industry attacks on the Oscar-nominated documentary Gasland demonstrate, the gas industry is mounting a powerful PR assault against journalists, academics and anyone else ...
us/‘Energy In Depth’ Was Created By Major Oil and Gas Companies According to Industry Memo
ByBrendan DeMelle
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DeSmogBlog has uncovered an industry memo revealing that ‘Energy In Depth’ is hardly comprised of the mom-and-pop “small, independent oil and natural gas producers” it claims to represent.  In fact...