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Justin Nobel

Justin Nobel writes for DeSmog and other U.S. publications, including Rolling Stone and Harper’s, on the impacts of oil and gas industry waste on workers, communities, public health, and the environment. His reporting has won awards from the National Association of Science Writers, and been featured in the Best American Science Writing book series. Justin’s 2024 book, “Petroleum-238: Big Oilโ€™s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It,” together with his DeSmog reporting, has inspired government investigations and scientific research. A documentary film is presently being made about his reporting. Contact him at [email protected].

Articles by Justin Nobel

us/As U.S. LNG Expands in Europe, a Hidden Threat Grows
ByJustin Nobel
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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.

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.
Cheniere LNG Plant on the Sabine Pass in Cameron Parish, LA.
us/โ€˜This Needs to Be Fixedโ€™: Nuclear Expert Calls Radioactivity Levels Found Outside Ohio Oilfield Waste Facility โ€˜Excessiveโ€™
ByJustin Nobel
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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 contaminationโ€™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 contaminationโ€™s possible source.
The entrance to Austin Master Services in Martins Ferry, Ohio.
us/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 Shellโ€™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 projectโ€™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 Dakotaโ€™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 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 ...
us/Citing Latest Climate Science, Nearly 30 Arrested Protesting New Natural Gas Plant in New Yorkโ€™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 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...
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...