Justin Nobel is the author of Petroleum-238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It. He writes on science and environment for magazines and investigative sites, his work has also been published in law and scientific journals and anthologized in Best American Science and Nature Writing and Best American Travel Writing.
Industry and regulators knew decades ago that injecting drilling’s toxic liquid leftovers underground wasn’t safe.
A lawsuit charges National Grid, a major gas utility, with mismanaging a toxic industrial site near two densely-populated residential neighborhoods.
A new lawsuit alleges toxic, radioactive waste leaked into a PA family’s water well, uncovering a regulatory abyss for miles of fracking pipelines in the state.
The oil and gas industry has been using the basin as a free disposal site for decades.
A Q&A with DeSmog reporter Justin Nobel about his revelatory new book, Petroleum-238.
DeSmog writer Justin Nobel’s new book explores how workers bear the brunt of the oil and gas industry’s hidden contaminated waste.
The legal battle over a treatment plant built by French multinational Veolia points to a hidden source of oil industry harm.
The move could pave the way for otherwise missing federal oversight for these facilities.
Community groups present health and environmental justice concerns to the EPA, alleging workers at Austin Master Services are coated in dangerous levels of radioactive waste.
Researchers and industry experts are sounding the alarm about the dangers that naturally occurring radiation in liquified natural gas could pose to workers and communities in the U.S. and Europe.
