Steve Horn

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has granted the first-ever LNG export permit license to Dominion Resources, Inc. to export gas obtained from the controversial hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") process in the Marcellus Shale basin.   It's the…

Pennsylvania Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate and former head of the state's Department of Environmental Protection, Kathleen "Katie" McGinty, has hired powerful PR firm SKDKnickerbocker for her campaign's communications…

DeSmogBlog has obtained a copy of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) PowerPoint presentation about fracking groundwater contamination that describes findings about Dimock, Pennsylvania — a town featured prominently in the films Gasland and…

A must-read Los Angeles Times story by Neela Banerjee demonstrates that the Obama administration put the kibosh on a key Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") groundwater contamination, this time in Dimock,…

This has been cross-posted from DeSmogBlog. Former CIA head David Petraeus' City University of New York (CUNY) Macaulay Honors College seminar readings include several prominent Big Oil-funded "frackademia" studies, a recent DeSmogBlog investigation…

Environmental Resources Management, Inc. (ERM Group), the contractor that performed the environmental review for TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands export pipeline, was also recently hired by a major Delaware City, Delaware refinery to study air…

This article has been cross-posted from DeSmogBlog. A DeSmogBlog investigation reveals that Robert Bauer, former White House counsel and President Barack Obama's personal attorney, works at the corporate law firm Perkins Coie LLP, which does legal…

Records obtained by DeSmogBlog pertaining to City University of New York (CUNY) Macaulay Honors College's hiring of former head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) David Petraeus to teach a seminar this coming fall reveal that…

This article has been cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog.  Friends of the Earth-U.S. (FOE) has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department for failing to expedite an April 2013 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking communications between…

This article has been cross-posted from DeSmogBlog. The contractor the Obama U.S. State Department hired to write the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) of the northern half of TransCanada’s Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline overtly lied on…

The State Department's decision to hand over control to the oil industry to evaluate its own environmental performance on the proposed Keystone XL (KXL) tar sands pipeline has led to a colossal oversight. Neither Secretary of State John Kerry nor…

Two major lawsuits were recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas against ExxonMobil, the "private empire" behind the March 2013 Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill of over 1.1 million gallons of diluted bitumen…

With many eyes honed in on the Powder River Basin coal export battle in the Northwest, another coal export boom is unfolding on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Although no coal production is actually taking place here, a filthy fuel with even more severe…

In President Barack Obama's Climate Action Plan address on Tuesday, he stated that TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would only receive State Department approval "if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon…

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama announced his administration's "Climate Action Plan" for cutting carbon pollution in his second term in the Oval Office at Georgetown University and unfortunately, it's a full-throttled endorsement of every aspect…

Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) kicked the can down the road on a key study designated to examine the connection between hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") and groundwater contamination in Pavillion, Wyoming.  A study…

Documents recently obtained by Bold Nebraska show that TransCanada, owner of the hotly-contested Keystone XL (KXL) tar sands pipeline, has colluded with an FBI/DHS fusion center in Nebraska, labeling nonviolent activists as possible candidates for…

8,600 acres of the Cumberland Forest owned by University of Tennessee-Knoxville will be leased off to the oil and gas industry this August in a new form of "frackademia" — and one of the top financial beneficiaries will be the family of Republican…

If an ecologically hazardous accident happens to TransCanada's Keystone XL (KXL) tar sands pipeline, we can't say we weren't forewarned. That's the latest from a press release and YouTube video recently disseminated by the good government…