Steve Horn
The Guardian
San Diego, CA, United States
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Arizona reels as three of the biggest wildfires in its history ravage state
Extreme weather has contributed to the vast blazes – with the pandemic complicating the emergency response → Read More
Big Oil Fears Keystone XL Ruling Means End of Easy Pipeline Permits
On April 15, Judge Brian Morris nullified water-crossing permits in Montana that were granted for the Keystone XL, a major setback for the long-embattled tar sands oil pipeline. The ruling came just days after Keystone XL owner TC Energy, formerly known as TransCanada, obtained billions of dollars → Read More
COVID-19 'Liberate' Groups Are the Same Ones Pushing Climate Denial
This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on Climate Solutions, to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story. → Read More
Congress Quietly Adopts Exxon Mobil-Backed Law Promoting New Gas Pipeline, Arms to Cyprus
The authorization of support for a new pipeline in the Mediterranean never received a hearing, up-or-down vote, or open debate. → Read More
TigerSwan, County Sheriff Sued Over Road Blockade During Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
On October 18, two Standing Rock Sioux Tribe members and a pastor for an Episcopal Church on the reservation filed a class action civil lawsuit against state, county, and private law enforcement in the latest chapter of the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) saga. → Read More
Sempra Energy Plans to Export Fracked Gas on the West Coast — via Mexico
By Steve Horn and Martha Pskowski The Costa Azul liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal sits on an isolated stretch of the Pacific Coast north of Ensenada, Baja California, in Mexico. When Sempra and its Mexican affiliate IEnova sought to acquire the land in 2002, the site’s remoteness worked in their favor. It was only frequented by fishermen, a few surfers, and a handful of beach-front… → Read More
Newly Elected President of Mexico, Lopez Obrador, Vows to Ban Fracking
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who won the election to become Mexico's President on July 1, stated in a press conference that he will ban the horizontal drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) upon assuming the office on December 1. → Read More
Mexico's New Populist President Considers Foreign Pipeline Plans Despite Indigenous Protests
By Martha Pskowski and Steve Horn Andrés Manuel López Obrador looked out at the crowd of reporters at a Mexico City Hilton Hotel the night of July 1. It was a moment that he had waited years for: his victory speech for the Mexican presidency. To win in his third presidential campaign, López Obrador, a left-wing populist whose roots are in the oil-producing state of Tabasco, had to calm business… → Read More
$83 Billion West Virginia Petrochemical Deal with China on Skids Due to Trade War, Corruption Probe
Last November, China and West Virginia signed an $83.7 billion dollar, 20-year agreement to build a massive petrochemical hub in the state but that deal may be on hiatus in the midst of a de facto trade war spurred by President Donald Trump and a corruption investigation unfolding in the Mountain → Read More
Ryan Zinke to look into unpopular Montana land exchange proposal
Zinke met Dan and Farris Wilks last September regarding the 5,000-acre proposal, which was twice rejected under the Obama administration → Read More
California Is Fighting Trump's Offshore Drilling Plan but Exxon, Koch Already Drill There.
Public officials throughout the state of California have made headlines for loudly opposing Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke's decision to approve offshore drilling in California and throughout the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf region. → Read More
Emails Reveal Trump Admin Mulling Big Oil Plan to Transfer Public Land to States
During its first year under Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Interior has coordinated closely with the oil and gas industry to accomplish its priorities on the nation's expansive federal lands. Among them: considering a plan to transfer control of oil and gas development on public lands to the → Read More
Why the Koch Network Took Credit for Dakota Access, Keystone XL, and REINS Act
A leaked memorandum published by The Intercept and Documented Investigations shows that a Koch Industries' donors network, known as the Seminar Network, has taken credit for Donald Trump approving the permits for both the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines during the first months of his → Read More
Inside the Trump Admin's Fight to Keep the Keystone XL Approval Process Secret
At a February 21 hearing, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that the Trump administration must either fork over documents showing how the U.S. Department of State reversed an earlier decision and ultimately came to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, or else provide a substantial legal reason for → Read More
Wyoming Now Third State to Propose ALEC Bill Cracking Down on Pipeline Protests
On the heels of Iowa and Ohio, Wyoming has become the third state to introduce a bill criminalizing the type of activities undertaken by past oil and gas pipeline protesters. → Read More
China Is Financing a Petrochemical Hub in Appalachia. Meet its Powerful Backers.
Over the past year, oil and gas industry plans to build a petrochemical refining and storage hub along the Ohio River have steadily gaining traction. Proponents hope this potential hub, which would straddle Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky, could someday rival the industrial corridor → Read More
Obama Alums Are Pushing Fracked Gas Exports. That’s Exactly What Trump Wants
During his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump exclaimed that the “war on American Energy” had ended and that “we are now an exporter of energy to the world.” → Read More
As Trump Unfurls Infrastructure Plan, Iowa Bill Seeks to Criminalize Pipeline Protests
The Iowa Senate has advanced a bill which critics say could lead to the criminalization of pipeline protests, which are being cast as “terrorist activities.” Dakota Access pipeline owner Energy Transfer Partners and other companies have lobbied for the bill, Senate Study Bill 3062, which opens up → Read More
Congressional Committee Members Pushing LNG Exports Bills Have Deep Financial, Revolving Door Ties
Last week the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce held a subcommittee hearing on two bills to expedite permitting for exports of natural gas. Domestic production of this fossil fuel has been booming in recent years, mainly thanks to hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) → Read More
Mexico's Standing Rock? Sempra, TransCanada Face Indigenous Pipeline Resistance South of Border
Since Mexico privatized its oil and gas resources in 2013, border-crossing pipelines including those owned by Sempra Energy and TransCanada have come under intense scrutiny and legal challenges, particularly from Indigenous peoples. → Read More