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Justin Nobel

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Justin Nobel writes on issues of science and the environment for Rolling Stone and has a book on oil and gas radioactivity forthcoming with Simon & Schuster entitled PETROLEUM-238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It.

Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?
ByJustin Nobel
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A year-long investigation finds a major West Texas disposal site with a patchy record is also importing radioactive oilfield waste from abroad.

A year-long investigation finds a major West Texas disposal site with a patchy record is also importing radioactive oilfield waste from abroad.
An industrial facility in the desert shows dozens of large tanks filled with pipe and oilfield waste and black barrels.
us/Fire at Oil and Gas Waste Site Raises Safety Concerns Around Possible Radioactive Accidents
ByJustin Nobel
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On the evening of February 1, a fire erupted at a West Virginia facility that processes radioactive oilfield waste generated from nearby fracking operations, injuring two workers. A video of the fi...
us/This Massive Facebook Solar Project Will Power Shell’s Fracking Operations in Texas
ByJustin Nobel
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In the heart of the Permian oil patch in West Texas, a massive $416 million solar array began converting sunshine to electricity this summer. One of the project’s main financiers has a very familia...
Series: Permian Problems: Fracking Industry's Promised Land Turns Sour
Series: Fracking the Permian
us/Whose Allegiance? Three Percenters Militia Working in Bakken Oil Patch Raises Concerns of Domestic Terrorism Risk
ByJustin Nobel
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The Three Percenters, a loosely organized group of far-right militants, appear to have established a significant presence in North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield, one of the most productive oilfields in ...
The Syrian Job: Uncovering the Oil Industry's Radioactive Secret
ByJustin Nobel
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Cancerous lesions have developed across Keith MacDonald’s body and his son is dead from leukemia. His life has disintegrated, and in his eyes fault lies with the third richest company on earth. It ...
us/Citing Latest Climate Science, Nearly 30 Arrested Protesting New Natural Gas Plant in New York’s Hudson Valley
ByJustin Nobel
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On Saturday, November 16, 29 people were arrested in a rally at a massive natural gas-fired power plant, the Cricket Valley Energy Center, that is being constructed in a picturesque rural valley of...
us/After Second Deadly Crash, Regulators Say Trucks Leaking Fracked Gas Cargo Are Fine
ByJustin Nobel
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Last Friday, October 11, a “Virtual Pipeline” truck carrying compressed natural gas crashed on a highway in Orange, Massachusetts, killing the driver, leaking the potent greenhouse gas methane into...
us/Whistleblower Reveals Flawed Construction at North Dakota Gas Plants Where Massive Spill Was Downplayed
ByJustin Nobel
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Two North Dakota gas processing plants in the heart of the Bakken oil fields have shown signs of an eroded safety culture and startling construction problems, according to Paul Lehto, a 54-year-old...
us/Another Virtual Pipeline Truck Carrying Fracked Gas Crashes in New York. Local Climate Advocates Demand Urgent Action
ByJustin Nobel
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On Monday around 1:00 a.m., a “Virtual Pipeline” truck carrying compressed natural gas mined from the Marcellus Shale crashed on Interstate 88 near Binghamton, New York, after the vehicle swerved t...
us/Did North Dakota Regulators Hide an Oil and Gas Industry Spill Larger Than Exxon Valdez?
ByJustin Nobel
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In July 2015 workers at the Garden Creek I Gas Processing Plant, in Watford City, North Dakota, noticed a leak in a pipeline and reported a spill to the North Dakota Department of Health that remai...
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