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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/Dirty Energy Subsidies Still 5x More Than Pledged Climate Aid, Activists Ask #WTF?
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Oil Change International released a briefing paper today at COP19 in Warsaw revealing that subsidies lavished on the fossil fuel industry by wealthy industrialized nations add up to more than five ...
us/International Coal and Climate Summit Hears Tough Love from UNFCCC Head As Protests Highlight Poland's Coal Addiction
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The second week of the COP19 UN climate change conference in Warsaw kicked off today with a focus on the continuing obstruction of the bad actors in the process - Japan, Australia and Canada - as w...
us/DeSmog Responds to Misleading Allegations From Edelman and Alliance For Northwest Jobs & Exports
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The Alliance for Northwest Jobs & Exports issued a misleading statement to the Seattle Times in response to last week's guest post by contributor Mike Stark: Why Are Coal Industry PR Pros Laughing ...
us/Crossett: Why the Government Shutdown Is A Matter of Life and Death for Polluted Communities
ByBrendan DeMelle
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With no end in sight to the GOP war on democracy, shutdown edition, all “nonessential workers” are off the job of protecting the American public. This includes ninety-four percent of the Environmen...
us/International Climate Science Coalition Lacks Credibility, Launches Heartland Institute Anti-Science Report
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The self-proclaimed experts at the International Climate Science Coalition have today launched another fanciful flight into the realm of climate denialism and United Nations conspiracy theories. T...
us/Climate Denial Playbook: Marc Morano's History of Bullying Scientists
ByBrendan DeMelle
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If you've even heard of Marc Morano, you probably watched him angrily attacking a climate scientist, journalist or Al Gore on Fox News or on his blog Climate Depot, a project of the Donors Trust an...
us/Monckton Challenged To Put Up Or Shut Up By John Abraham
ByBrendan DeMelle
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See update below: Monckton responded (sort of) and Abraham has a new letter back. See below the original post. John Abraham, a Professor of Thermal Sciences at the University of St. Thomas and a...
us/Keystone XL Decision Delayed Again? Inspector General Pushes Report on ERM Scandals to January
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Did the Obama administration's decision on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline just get delayed again? Quite possibly, since the State Department Inspector General announced today that it has delaye...
us/Powerful Video Contrasts Obama Climate Speech with Expanded Coal Leases on Public Lands
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Greenpeace US released this powerful video today, contrasting the laudable statements that President Obama made during his climate change address in June with his administration's efforts to greatl...
us/Deadly Quebec Oil Train Disaster and Athabasca River Spill On Same Day as Tar Sands Healing Walk
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Today, as hundreds of people joined First Nations leaders to walk 14 kilometers through the tar sands in Fort McMurray on the Tar Sands Healing Walk, news of several new oil disasters spread throug...