Justin Nobel

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Justin Nobel writes on issues of science and the environment for Rolling Stone. His first book,ย PETROLEUM-238: Big Oilโ€™s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It, tells the story of his seven-year investigation into how the U.S. oil and gas industry has avoided environmental regulations and created a dangerous and radioactive public health crisis.

onApr 22, 2021 @ 04:00 PDT

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.
onFeb 18, 2021 @ 13:09 PST

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...
onOct 21, 2020 @ 10:23 PDT

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 projectโ€™s main financiers has a very familia...
onJul 21, 2020 @ 06:00 PDT

The Three Percenters, a loosely organized group of far-right militants, appear to have established a significant presence in North Dakotaโ€™s Bakken oilfield, one of the most productive oilfields in ...
onApr 29, 2020 @ 02:38 PDT

Cancerous lesions have developed across Keith MacDonaldโ€™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 ...
onNov 19, 2019 @ 14:00 PST

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...
onOct 17, 2019 @ 15:48 PDT

Last Friday, October 11, a โ€œVirtual Pipelineโ€ truck carrying compressed natural gas crashed on a highway in Orange, Massachusetts, killing the driver, leaking the potent greenhouse gas methane into...
onOct 1, 2019 @ 03:05 PDT

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...
onSep 25, 2019 @ 15:26 PDT

On Monday around 1:00 a.m., a โ€œVirtual Pipelineโ€ truck carrying compressed natural gas mined from the Marcellus Shale crashed on Interstate 88 near Binghamton, New York, after the vehicle swerved t...
onAug 19, 2019 @ 12:56 PDT

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...