Fri, Jul 12
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Justin Nobel, Petroleum-238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It
An acclaimed science journalist's extraordinary 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.
Date, Time & Location
Jul 12, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Co-sponsors: New Energy Economy, Center for Biological Diversity, WildEarth Guardians, and No False Solutions.
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, register here for Zoom.
Purchase Petroleum-238 ($31.99, hardcover) from CW online here or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
As Justin Nobel traveled the United States reporting on the oil and gas industry he learned a disturbing and little-considered fact: a 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…