DeSmog: Message From the Editor

This week, DeSmog reporter Justin Nobel published a major new investigative report at Rolling Stone that delves deep into the risks that the oil and gas industry’s waste — much of it radioactive — poses to the industry’s own workers and to the public.

Nobel shared additional documents with DeSmog, including a report prepared for the American Petroleum Institute that described these radioactivity risks as “significant” in 1982.

Last week, a divided panel of judges dismissed a landmark youth climate lawsuit, recommending these young people take up their grievances with the political system — which, as legal and scientific experts point out, has been corrupted by the same fossil fuel industry causing the climate crisis.

And Sharon Kelly looks back at what a decade of fracking has produced: A precipitous rise in oil and gas drilling, coinciding with devastating climate impacts, all while losing investors billions of dollars.