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Steve Horn

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Steve Horn is the owner of the consultancy Horn Communications & Research Services, which provides public relations, content writing, and investigative research work products to a wide range of nonprofit and for-profit clients across the world.

An investigative reporter on the climate beat for over a decade and former Research Fellow for DeSmog between 2011-2018, his work has appeared in outlets such as The Guardian, The Intercept, Wisconsin Watch, The Coast News, and elsewhere. His work has been cited in a U.S. Senate report, federal litigation, and by publications such as The New York Times, Bloomberg, The New Yorker, Voice of San Diego, La Jornada, Democracy Now!, among outlets.

us/In Midst of ExxonMobil Climate Denial Scandal, Company Hiring Climate Change Researcher
BySteve Horn
onDec 14, 2015 @ 03:38 PST

Caught in the crosshairs of an ongoing New York Attorney General investigation exploring its role in studying the damage climate change could cause since the 1970's and then proceeding to fund clim...
us/Exposed: ExxonMobil Funding Influential Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy
BySteve Horn
onDec 1, 2015 @ 15:03 PST

In a sentence buried at the very bottom of a story making headlines nationwide, Politico revealed for the first time one of the funders of Columbia University's influential Center on Global Energy ...
us/Groups Hand 360,000 Signatures to Justice Department Calling for "Exxon Knew" Probe
BySteve Horn
onNov 20, 2015 @ 12:36 PST

With the hottest October in world history recorded recently, a slew of advocacy groups have delivered 360,000 petition signatures to the U.S. Department of Justice, calling for a probe of petrochem...
us/Obama Administration Approves Pipeline Expansion Set to Feed First Ever Fracked Gas LNG Export Terminal
BySteve Horn
onNov 13, 2015 @ 03:58 PST

The Obama Administration has quietly approved expansion of a major pipeline carrying fracked gas destined for the global export market. The Gulf Trace pipeline, owned by The Williams Companies, is ...
us/Report: Fossil Fuel Industry Benefits from $20 Billion in Subsidies in the U.S.
BySteve Horn
onNov 12, 2015 @ 05:58 PST

A new joint investigative report by Oil Change International and the Overseas Development Institute reveals that, in the United States alone, the fossil fuel industry has benefited from over $20 bi...
us/TransCanada's Next Move After Keystone XL: Flood Mexico with Fracked Gas with State Department Help
BySteve Horn
onNov 11, 2015 @ 17:57 PST

TransCanada, the owner of the recently-nixed northern leg of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, has won a bid from Mexico's government to build a 155-mile pipeline carrying gas from hydraulic frac...
New York AG Subpoenas ExxonMobil, Investigating Peabody Coal for Climate Denial
BySteve Horn
onNov 5, 2015 @ 15:31 PST

In a blockbuster story, The New York Times reported that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has subpoenaed oil and gas industry giant ExxonMobil to “determine whether the company lied to t...
us/Iowa County Attorney Blames Victim, Won't Press Charges in Dakota Access Pipeline-for-Prostitute Scandal
BySteve Horn
onOct 28, 2015 @ 15:18 PDT

An attorney in Lee County, Iowa has decided not to press charges against a right-of-way contracting company working on behalf of Energy Transfer Partners, owner of the controversial proposed Dakota...
Series: Dakota Access: Energy Transfer Partners Bakken Oil Pipeline
Series: Dakota Access Pipeline Battle
us/Congress-backed Interstate Oil Commission Call Cops When Reporter Arrives To Ask About Climate
BySteve Horn
onOct 8, 2015 @ 15:51 PDT

On October 1, I arrived at the Oklahoma City headquarters of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) — a congressionally-chartered collective of oil and gas producing states — hoping ...
us/American Petroleum Institute Touts Oil Exports to Fend Off Iran, Russia Despite API Members Tied to Both Countries
BySteve Horn
onSep 20, 2015 @ 10:58 PDT

The American Petroleum Institute (API) has launched a new advertising campaign in its ongoing push to oust the U.S. oil exports ban in place since 1975. One of the most recent ads, titled “Crude O...

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