Steve Horn

Bio

Steve Horn is a Research Fellow at DeSmogBlog, Contributing Editor at CounterPunch and regulator contributor for TruthOut.
Obama DOE Issues First Marcellus Shale Fracked Gas Export Permit
By 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…
Keystone Pipeline Deal is Full of Double Dealings and Cronyism
By Steve Horn
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…
The EPA Tried to Cover Up This Fracking Report
By Steve Horn
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…
Is Obama Deliberately Covering Up the Harmful Effects Of Fracking?
By Steve Horn
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,…
David Petraeus' CUNY Course Features Big Oil Talking Points
By Steve Horn
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…
Oil Refinery Made Air Cleaner, According to Company Hired by Obama's Administration
By Steve Horn
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…
Keystone XL: Obama's Personal Lawyer is Lobbying For TransCanada
By Steve Horn
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…
David Petraeus' New University Syllabus Focuses On the Fracking "Revolution"
By Steve Horn
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…
Keystone XL Pipeline: Who's Fighting For It Behind the Scenes?
By Steve Horn
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…
Keystone XL Pipeline: Why Are Big Oil's Hired Guns Getting Paid by the Government?
By Steve Horn
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…