(Book cover design by Sabrina Bedford, cover photo by Julie Dermansky)

Petroleum-238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It will be published April 24, 2024. The book can be ORDERED now with AMAZON or BARNES & NOBLE or BOOKSHOP.ORG or any INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE across the US

BOOK TOUR DATES (and below that is listed Press about the book)...

> Saturday November 16: Book event at Wood County Library in Toledo, Ohio

> FALL/WINTER, Events to come in Maryland, North Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana and Florida, and Texas

**If you are interested in hosting an event at a bookstore, university or community space in your community please reach out to Karen LeBlanc, misskarret@gmail.com

 

PRESS ABOUT THE BOOK!!

> April 12 2024 - Conversation with Carolyn Harding of Grassroots Ohio, WGRN and WCRS FM 

> April 24 2024 - Rolling Stone, "A Reformed Fracker Exposes the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Toxic Lies: An excerpt from ‘Petroleum-238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It’ tells the story of a bank robber-turned-fracker who became a whistleblower"

> April 30 2024 - New York on Earth substack, "The Radioactive Gas That's Fueling NYC" 

> April 30 2024 - ABC News 27.Com WHTM out of Harrisburg Pennsylvania, "Environmental advocacy groups rally at capitol for action on gas, oil industry" 

> April 30 2024 - WKBN 27 out of Youngstown Ohio, "Rolling Stone investigative author coming to Valley"

> May 3 2024 - The Oberlin Review, Oberlin Ohio, "Justin Nobel: Environmental Journalist, Author of Petroleum-238"

> May 5 2024: The Athens Messenger, Athens Ohio, "Oil and Gas Industry: Author says Martins Ferry site is reflective of oil and gas industry as a whole"

> May 8 2024 - The Athens Messenger, Athens Ohio, "Oil and Gas Industry: Justin Nobel shares one treatment plant's story, answers questions"

> May 13 2024 - The Allegheny Front, Pittsburgh-area NPR, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, "New book takes on the dangers of radioactivity in the oil and gas industry"

> May 16 2024 - The Intelligencer Wheeling News-Register, Wheeling West Virginia "Science Journalist Presents Research Into Austin Master Facility" 

> May 16 2024 - WTRF out of Triadelphia and Wheeling West Virginia, "Austin Master Services employee’s clothes tested for radioactive materials"

> May 17 2024 - WTRF out of Triadelphia and Wheeling West Virginia, "Science journalist presents research into toxic waste at Ohio oil and gas waste company that was allegedly storing illegal excess quantities of brine and drilling waste"

> May 18 2024 - WTRF out of Triadephia and Wheeling West Virginia, "Austin Master Services to face court Monday for radioactive liquids and sludge waste" 

> May 18 2024 - WTOV9 FOX out of Steubenville Ohio, "Author Justin Nobel discusses oil and gas impacts at Korbel's Farm book signing"

> May 22 2024 - PA Environment Digest Blog: Guest Essay: Oil & Gas Industry Waste And Radioactive Drinking Water In Pennsylvania 

> June 2024 - All Things Green Podcast: Oil Industry's Radioactive Secrets Revealed with Author & Journalist Justin Nobel Episode 48

> June 3 2024 - Environmental Health Sciences News: The oil and gas industry’s radioactive problem: Q&A with Justin Nobel

> June 7 2024 - WGGT-LP 92.9 Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Planet Philadelphia with Kay Wood

> June 10 2024 - Forward Radio WFMP 106.5 Louisville Kentucky: Sustainability Now! with Justin Mog

> June 14 2024 - Appearance on The Power Hour, National podcast program out of St. Louis: Justin Nobel - "Petroleum-238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It."

> June 30 2024 - New York Times Readalong show with Sree Sreenivasan and Neil Parekh: #NYTReadalong | Justin Nobel (Investigative Science Journalist)

> July 9 2024 - Inside Climate News: Peering Inside the Pandora’s Box of Oil and Gas Waste

> July 25 2024 - Nonprofit Quarterly: Is Radioactivity the Key to Holding the Fracking Industry Accountable?

> September 26 2024 -  Washington Independent Review of Books: An Interview with Justin Nobel