Bøger af Justin Nobel

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.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.This book is an impressive work of investigative science journalism with surprising moments of literary beauty, and a welcome breakdown of the false wall corporations and politicians often set between industry workers and environmentalists. In the tradition of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Petroleum-238 is both a landmark work of environmental writing and an urgent call to action.*Cover design by Sabrina Bedford. Cover photo by Julie Dermansky.

Ever spend 14 hours straight on the New York City subway? Justin Nobel has a simple philosophy: the best way to know a city is to stand in one spot and observe it, for a VERY long time. In "Standing Still in a Concrete Jungle", Justin "stands" in some of New York's most famous spots-Central Park, the subway, a Park Slope coffee shop-but also grittier places no tourist would ever go-a street corner in a rough part of the Bronx, a forgotten cemetery, an ER waiting room. Justin peels away the surface of the city to find a chattering nether-metropolis, where nothing is normal. He meets deranged mailman, his child doppelganger, a rare insect vendor and under a full moon on a beach in Brooklyn has a shamanistic experience with an evil genie. If you've ever been fascinated by the public spaces where so much of our daily nothing, that might actually mean everything, goes on this book will surely make you howl. And who knows, perhaps you're in it.