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In this episode of "Just the Facts," hosted by Mark Goode and featuring guest Justin Nobel, an acclaimed journalist and author, a dark and critical issue within the oil and gas industry came to light—radioactivity in oil field waste. Nobel, who spent seven years investigating and writing his book " Petroleum 238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It ," provides alarming r...

In this episode, Dr. Ted Auch, the Great Lakes Program Coordinator for the Fractracker Alliance interviews Dennis Drabelle, author of "The Power of Scenery." Wallace Stegner called national parks “the best idea we ever had.” As Americans celebrate the 150th anniversary of Yellowstone, the world’s first national park, a question naturally arises: where did the idea for a national park originate? Th...

In this episode, Dr. Ted Auch, the Great Lakes Program Coordinator for the Fractracker Alliance interviews Ms. Michelle Niujhuis , author of " Beloved Beasts - Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction ." Niujhuis' book is a critical history of the modern conservation movement. It was named one of the best books of 2021 by the Chicago Tribune, Smithsonian, Booklist, and other publications . Niujhu...

In this episode, Dr. Mary Finley-Brook and Mr. Stephen Metts discuss their upcoming book, "Climate Crisis - Energy Violence." Finley-Brook and Metts have been studying the intersection of climate crisis - the rapidly changing climate brought on by human activities -- and energy violence -- the damage being done to our environment by a variety of malevolent human activities including the extraction...

Josh and his wife Abby are lifelong residents of East Palestine, OH . On the evening of February 3, 2023, their lives changed forever. When the Norfolk Southern train derailed in their small town, five of the rail cars were carrying the very toxic chemical, vinyl chloride. And as the cars burned, the results of the combustion released the deadly chemical dioxin into the atmosphere. In this episode...

Today, we interview two guests. First up is Rev. Bob Miller, the pastor of the Emmanueal United Methodist Church in East Palestine, OH. Rev. Miller has pastored Emmanuel for a number of years and is a first person witness to the events that happened beginning February 3, 2023 in East Palestine. Rev. Miller learned of the derailment the day after it occurred and immediately went in to town to check...

On today's episode, Dr. Ted Auch interviews Dr. Bathsheba Demuth is the Dean’s Associate Professor of History, Environment, and Society at Brown University in Rhode Island, and the author of “Floating Coast, an Environmental History of the Bering Strait.” (buy the book here ). An expert in regions far north of the Arctic Circle, Dr. Demuth discusses what she learned during her travels there (in th...