Environment

Whistleblower Decries ‘Unregulated’ Fracking Wastewater Network in Pa.

Justin Nobel / DeSmog Dec 27, 2024 A new lawsuit alleges toxic, radioactive waste leaked into a family’s water well, uncovering the regulatory abyss of fracking pipelines in the state. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Environment

Drillers Legally Dump Tons of Toxic, Radioactive Waste Into the North Sea

Justin Nobel / DeSmog Sep 23, 2024 The oil and gas industry has been using the basin as a free disposal site for decades. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Book Excerpt

Is Oil Field Waste Making You Sick?

Justin Nobel / Truthdig Apr 25, 2024 The industry's workers are at risk and we don't know how bad the radioactivity is. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Investigative Stories

Growing List of Fracking Concerns Now Includes Radioactivity

Justin Nobel / Truthdig Jan 9, 2023 Industry documents and new research suggests the natural gas pipeline system emits significant amounts of radioactivity. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

The Radioactive Legacy We Are Leaving Our Children

Paul Brown / Climate News Network Dec 3, 2019 There is far too much lethal waste that current governments still cannot make safe. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

VIDEO: ‘Days of Revolt’: Chris Hedges, Native American Activists Denounce Uranium Poisoning

Staff / Truthdig Mar 3, 2016 Nuclear contamination is harming land and lives in parts of America. Some Native Americans call it "deliberate genocide." In this episode of teleSUR's "Days of Revolt," Chris Hedges and two Native American activists examine the problem and how to fight back. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Big Fat Radioactive Lie

By Emily Schwartz Greco / OtherWords Dec 6, 2015 Billionaires are hyping nuclear power as a magic cure for climate change. But there are many reasons why governments should resist their call to pump more tax dollars into nuclear energy. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Rural N.Y. Communities Use Fracking Waste to De-Ice Roads

BLANK Dec 9, 2013 Maybe this is why there’s a New York city named Fishkill. Road crews in some rural areas around the state are using toxic fracking waste liquid to de-ice roads, despite a moratorium on fracking in the state and a federal EPA warning against using the juice. Exactly what’s in the liquid? Only the frackheads know, and they’re keeping it a secret. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Fukushima Leaks 4 Tons of Radioactive Water Into Ground—Again

BLANK Oct 2, 2013 At some point the persistence of leaks at the Fukushima nuclear plant stops being news, and reports that there is not a leak becomes a story. The problem this time: typhoon rains, and chances are good more heavy weather will hit the region before the busy storm season ends. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Several U.S. Nuke Sites Have Sprung Leaks

Staff / Truthdig Jun 21, 2011 With so much focus recently on nuclear power sources in certain other parts of the world, it's important to note that the US has some considerable issues of its own in that department Take these results of a yearlong investigation into domestic power plants . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Some Progress, but More Worry, at Japanese Plant

Staff / Truthdig Apr 7, 2011 Although a stopgap measure has apparently plugged the leak in Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, keeping more radioactive water from spilling into the Pacific, the crisis has shifted over to Reactor 1, which could be headed for a blowup. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Radioactive Iodine Taints Japan’s Tap Water

Staff / Truthdig Mar 20, 2011 Adding to safety fears for those in Japan, the government there has reportedly found trace amounts of radioactive iodine in the tap water of six areas, including Tokyo. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )