Author : Justin Nobel
Release : 2024-04-24
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Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Petroleum-238 by : Justin Nobel
Download or read book Petroleum-238 written by Justin Nobel. This book was released on 2024-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed science journalist's 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. As Justin Nobel traveled the United States reporting on the oil and gas industry he learned a disturbing and little-considered fact: a lot more comes to the surface at a well than just the oil and gas. Each year the industry produces billions of tons of waste, much of it toxic and radioactive. The fracking boom has only worsened the problem. So where does it all go? Petroleum-238 provides the shocking answer. Shielded by a system of lax regulations and legal loopholes, this waste has been spilled, spread, injected, dumped, and freely emitted across America. Nobel relies on oilfield workers, community activists, a century of academic research, and a trove of never-before released industry and government documents to lay out a series of game-changing reveals into the world's most powerful industry. None have been more deceived than the industry's own workers, who are suffering mysterious health maladies and dying from unexplainable cancers. In the tradition of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Petroleum-238 is a landmark work of environmental writing and an urgent call to action.
