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Justin Nobel

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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.

us/‘This Needs to Be Fixed’: Nuclear Expert Calls Radioactivity Levels Found Outside Ohio Oilfield Waste Facility ‘Excessive’
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An investigation reveals elevated levels of radioactivity not far from a high school football stadium, and accounts from inspectors point to the contamination’s possible source.

An investigation reveals elevated levels of radioactivity not far from a high school football stadium, and accounts from inspectors point to the contamination’s possible source.
The entrance to Austin Master Services in Martins Ferry, Ohio.
us/Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...

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