Steve Horn

About

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.

onMar 27, 2014 @ 16:03 PDT

Three days after spilling crude oil into Lake Michigan, BP has doubled its spill estimate to between 470 and 1228 gallons. The leak happened at its refinery in Whiting,ย Ind. Although some of the oi...
onMar 26, 2014 @ 11:54 PDT

At the just-completed U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing titled, โ€œThe Geopolitical Potential of the U.S. Energy Boom,โ€ Admiral Dennis Blair โ€”ย formerย Director of National Intelligence, ...
onMar 26, 2014 @ 04:38 PDT

In light of ongoing geopolitical tensions in Russia, Ukraine and hotly contested Crimea, three (yes, three!) U.S. Congressional Committees held hearings this week on the U.S. using its newfangled o...
onMar 17, 2014 @ 13:39 PDT

In a long-awaited moment in a hotly contested zone currently occupied by the Russian military,ย Ukraine's citizens living in the peninsula of Crimea voted overwhelmingly to become part of Russia. R...
onMar 13, 2014 @ 01:59 PDT

The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committeeย held aย hearing today (March 13) on the U.S. State Department's national interest determination for the northern half of the proposedย TransCanadaย Keystone...
onMar 10, 2014 @ 06:00 PDT

The recent March 6ย House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Powerย hearing titled โ€œBenefits of and Challenges to Energy Access in the 21st Century: Fuel Supply and Infrastructureโ€ never ha...
onMar 5, 2014 @ 15:21 PST

The U.S. Department of Defense released the 2014 version of itsย Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR)ย yesterday, declaring the threat of climate change impacts a very serious national security vulnerabi...
onFeb 19, 2014 @ 10:27 PST

The American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) model bill for disclosure of chemicals injected into the ground during the controversialย hydraulic fracturing (โ€œfrackingโ€) process is back for a s...
onFeb 12, 2014 @ 05:00 PST

Co-authored by Steve Horn and Carolineย Selle DeSmogBlog has obtained documents revealing that the government of Calvert County, MD, signed a non-disclosure agreement on August 21, 2012, with Domini...
onFeb 5, 2014 @ 10:00 PST

On January 31, President Barack Obama's U.S. State Department released its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the northern leg of TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline....