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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/Coal Lobbyist Grinches Stole 2010 As Obama Transparency Initiative Falters
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Despite President Obamaโ€™s campaign pledges of government transparency and limiting the influence of K Street lobbyists on policymaking, coal industry lobbyists got their stockings stuffed with wish...
us/Tyee Series On Canadian Tar Sands Interests Meddling In U.S. Politics
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The Tyee has launched a new series exploring the efforts of Canadian tar sands interests to undermine low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) policies in the U.S. that could some day threaten to wipe out A...
us/Dirty Energy Is Playing Full Contact So Is Cleantech Ready To Do The Same?
ByBrendan DeMelle
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This is a guest post by Mike Casey, president of TigerComm, cross-posted from ScalingGreen.com. Cancun -ย When I started working on solar energy issues several years ago, I heard it repeatedly: โ€œEv...
us/Want To Be The Next CEO of Massey Energy As Don Blankenship Retires?
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Sierra Club pranksters have posted on Craigโ€™s List an all-too-honest job description for anyone hoping to apply for the CEO job at Massey Energy to replace retiring CEO Don Blankenship.ย  Think youโ€™...
us/New Ad Asks President Obama To Stop Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would carry oil extracted from Canadaโ€™s dirty tar sands over 2,000 miles through two provinces and six U.S. states to Gulf Coast refineries. Unless it is stopped, ...
us/House Global Warming Committee Axed By GOP Climate Zombies
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The GOPโ€™s anti-science climate zombies claimed their first victim late this week, with House Speaker-designate John Boehner (R-OH) announcing his intent to shut down the House Select Committee on E...
us/Alberta Tar Sands Have Irreversible Impact on Indigenous Culture
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The Alberta tar sands are increasingly recognized as a major threat, not only moving us in the opposite direction from where we need to go to solve the climate crisis, but also with the enormous en...
us/Have We Found the Real โ€œClimategateโ€ Scandal?
ByBrendan DeMelle
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This is a guest post by Mike Casey, cross-posted from ScalingGreen.com.Despiteย overwhelming evidenceย that anthropogenic climate change is real, potentially catastrophic, and accelerating, the theft...
us/Had Enough Tar Sands Greenwashing? Join the CAPP Ad-Jam Contest
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Are you sick and tired of the greenwashing efforts by the Alberta government and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) to paint Canadaโ€™s toxic tar sands as โ€˜cleanโ€™?Greenpeace Canad...
us/Exxon Fracking Fluid Spill In Pennsylvania Dumps Estimated 13,000 Gallons Into Nearby Waterways
ByBrendan DeMelle
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XTO Energy, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil, is under investigation by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) after a 13,000 gallon hydraulic fracturing fluid spill at XTO Energy...