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

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A โ€˜GOP Energy Summitโ€™ held today at Ohio State University attracted more protesters outside than those attending the event hosted by Ohio Congressman Bob Latta inside a campus building.ย  The summi...
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Duke Energy announced today that it has left the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), the dirty coal front group lobbying against Congressional action on climate change.ย  Will oth...
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In the wake of the forged letters scandal involving lobbyists for the coal industry, D.C. astroturf firm Bonner & Associates claimed to have reached out to Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) and several Vir...
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An interesting and potentially explosive attachment was included with a letter sent to Congressional investigators by Steven R. Ross, an Akin Gump attorney working to defend his client Bonner & Ass...
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Talking Points Memo has obtained a copy of the letter sent to Congressional investigators by Steven R. Ross, an Akin Gump attorney working to defend his client Bonner & Associates, the D.C. public ...
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Usually PR firms like to be behind the news, not in the headlines themselves.ย  But Bonner & Associates โ€“ the D.C. Astroturf shop busted for mailing forged letters to Congress attacking the Waxman-M...
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Grist took a deeper look at a list of โ€œlocal organizersโ€ of the Astroturf โ€˜Energy Citizensโ€™ rallies and discovered that most of them are actually oil industry lobbyists.ย  Go figure.ย  Since the Amer...
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Like a bad habit, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) has dropped Bonner & Associates, the Astroturf lobbying firm led by Jack Bonner, whose โ€œwhite collar sweatshopโ€ forged at...