Former Top Obama Aide Pitches ‘Ethical Oil’
Steve HornEzra Levant is the man behind an attempt to re-frame the Alberta tar sands as "ethical oil.""Ethical" -- Levant's deceptive public relations campaign argues of the tar sands "carbon bomb" --...
View ArticleOil Spill Overlooked Due to Gov't. Shutdown
Steve HornBy Steve HornOver 20,600 barrels of oil fracked from the Bakken Shale has spilled from a Tesoro Logistics pipeline in Tioga, North Dakota in one of the biggest onshore oil spills in recent...
View ArticleCourt: Profits More Important than the Environment
Steve HornBy Steve Horna major ruling that's flown under the radar, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit -- based in Denver, Colorado -- decided not to grant the Sierra Club and Clean Energy...
View ArticleCuccinelli-backing Coal Baron Sues Writer for Defamation
Steve HornBy Steve HornCorporate attorneys insist coal company's CEO is not a public figure at all.Robert Murray, owner of the Ohio-based coal giant, Murray Energy Corporation, filed a defamation...
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MSNBC 'Leans Forward' with Ads Promoting Fracking
Steve HornBy Steve HornThree years into its "Lean Forward" re-branding campaign, MSNBC has given new meaning to the catchphrase, leaning forward into running branded content promoting hydraulic...
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Public Citizen Report Reveals Dents, Holes in Keystone XL
Steve HornBy Steve HornThe southern half of Transcanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is supposed to begin pumping up to 700,000 barrels of diluted bitumen per day through the Cushing, OK to Port...
View ArticleFrack Lobby's Taxes Show Big Bucks to Media, 'Other ALECs'
Steve HornBy Steve HornAmerica's Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) -- the public relations arm of the oil and gas fracking industry -- has released its 2012 Internal Revenue Services (IRS) 990 form, and it's...
View ArticleLeak Reveals ALEC's Fundraising Crisis
Steve HornBy Steve HornThe Guardian has published a major investigative piece that once again exposes the scandalous ways of the right wing lobbying group, American Legislative Exchange Council...
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Report: ALEC Plans Multi-Front War on Clean Energy
Steve HornBy Steve HornLeaked documents expose the corporate legislative agenda for the year ahead.The Guardian has released another must-read piece about the American Legislative Exchange Council...
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Records Show State Policy Network Was Created by ALEC
Steve HornBy Steve HornA 1991 report tracked down by DeSmogBlog from the University of California-San Francisco's Legacy Tobacco Documents reveals that the State Policy Network (SPN) was created by the...
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More Trouble for Bulletproof Securities in Wisconsin
Steve HornBy Steve HornBulletproof Securities, the Arizona private security firm that was operating without a license in northern Wisconsin to protect a controversial mine owned by Gogebic Taconite,...
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Key U.K. Fracking Report Co-Written by Climate Skeptic
Steve HornBy Steve HornThe conservative UK-based Centre for Policy Studies recently published a study on the climate change impacts of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") for shale gas. The skinny: it's...
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