Ohio’s oil and gas industry continues to spread one of its cruel, bald-faced lies. Industry spokespeople claim fracking oil and gas from state parks and wildlife areas is “responsible development” of Ohio public lands. But parks don’t belong to one supermajority political party to lease, industrialize, monetize, and destroy. Ohio public lands belong to all […]
Missoula, Mont. — The Missoula River Ambassadors are a familiar sight for anyone who floats around the area.
Colorado’s recently passed battery recycling law defines producer responsibility for end-of-life electric vehicle batteries. And California’s SB 615 may soon follow in a state committed to addressing the problem of large-format battery waste. These laws are an important step toward collecting waste and aiming to recover valuable minerals. But without stronger environmental transparency, disclosure and […]
More than two years after environmental regulators first documented industrial ‘red mud’ waste from the Atalco Gramercy alumina refinery escaping into public waterways, the state has yet to fine or penalize the company. Instead, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality remains engaged in confidential settlement negotiations with the company while a federal judge has kept […]
Southeastern Ohio has a serious problem underground. Now that problem is reaching the surface and threatening our drinking water. As a petroleum geologist, my job is to understand the rock layers deep underground and how fluids move through them. In Washington County, Ohio, toxic, radioactive waste from failed fracking waste disposal wells is surfacing where […]
Idaho would be required to accept spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste if the state becomes one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s new Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses. On Tuesday, Department of Energy officials announced that Idaho was one of five states selected as a potential host-site for a new nuclear campus, joining Utah, […]
Here we go again, Idaho. While most Americans have been preoccupied with rising food and fuel prices, an ongoing war in the Middle East and the various comings and goings of the Epstein Class, the Trump administration – and accomplices in a few very Trump friendly states – have been quietly concocting a plan to […]
The United States Department of Energy announced Tuesday that Tennessee was one of the five states under consideration for a federal partnership as part of the Trump administration’s attempt to boost nuclear energy production. The program, called the Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses, would allow Tennessee to build an industrial-like zone that could support “the full […]
This is the first in a two-part series about North Dakota projects that would process Minnesota mining materials. Coming tomorrow, read about a potential nickel processing facility. CALUMET, Minn. – Enormous piles of iron-rich waste sitting dormant in Minnesota are about to see movement for the first time in decades, soon heading hundreds of miles […]
(The Center Square) – An environmental oversight program in North Carolina created in 2007 hasn’t investigated nearly 8 in 10 landfills, a state audit says, and 80% of those sites are within 1,000 feet of homes, schools, daycares, churches or drinking water wells.
