Nick Bowlin

covering oil & gas in Oklahoma for @readfrontier and @propublica. Freelance: Harper's, ProPublica, The Guardian, The Drift, etc. npbowlin@gmail or DM for signal

[Nick Bowlin @npbowlin]

This is called a purge — injected, highly pressurized wastewater blasting out of an old well, while still more spreads below ground. These incidents have been happening all over Oklahoma. I spent a year investigating these pollution events for @propublica + @readfrontier

[Daniel Boguslaw @DRBoguslaw]

BREAKING: The federal government is targeting Anti-AI and data center activists. They are formulating a new threat category: anti-tech violent extremism. Full article in replies.

[The Frontier @readfrontier]

The Merediths were forced to abandon their house after it filled with black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite evidence of oil and gas pollution, the state “wanted to act like it would go away,” the family says.

https://t.co/bDvr8Ul3ZV

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

Such a STRONG story and visuals by @npbowlin @KatieCampbell: Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help. https://t.co/XXyvOlFXz5 w/ @readfrontier

[Martha Pskowski @psskow]

The "Trillion Gallon Time Bomb" @propublica panel I spoke on is now available on YouTube. Thanks to my co-panelists @npbowlin, Justin Nobel and moderator Mark Olalde for making it such a success. At @insideclimate I'll continue to report on the topic.

https://t.co/rQApC7LSDP

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

I am among the McClatchy journalists withholding my byline from AI-generated content. I cover sensitive stories that should never be repackaged or altered in any way by artificial intelligence. Whether the story is about sexual abuse or immigrants caged at Alligator Alcatraz, our journalists take great care to ensure that their material is accurate, fair and conveys invaluable aspects of humanity that AI simply can't do.

[🔥Brianna Bailey🔥 @briOKC]

Today at 3 p.m. Central/4 p.m. Eastern, it should be a good discussion about a pollution crisis threatening water in rural Oklahoma.

[Nick Bowlin @npbowlin]

We’ve got a great virtual panel for you this afternoon, where we’ll be talking oil and gas wastewater geysers, groundwater pollution and where produced water disposal is headed. With @propublica @readfrontier @DeSmog
RSVP here:
https://t.co/S6EwAOGgHW

[Alex Lubben @alexlubben]

Of the 6,400+ orphaned oil wells in Louisiana, 2,100 were added to the list in the last year alone.

Just four companies orphaned 1,200 of those wells. Here's where they are:

[ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild]

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica website or engaging with ProPublica stories today.

Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: https://t.co/tN24poWh62

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Israel is now openly claiming it is justified in killing journalists because the reporters may expose the positions of Israeli forces.

That is a radical and stark break from the norms of warfare and truly must be stopped.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Very good reporting from the NYT in Cuba: “Elsewhere in the hospital, doctors and nurses dashed to ventilators that were pumping air into the lungs of sick newborns. The machines’ battery systems died years ago, so health workers have to squeeze a rubber pump to keep the babies breathing until the generators start to work.

“With fuel running so short, the gas generators may be only a temporary savior. Nurses in the hospital’s neonatal unit said they already have plans for a fully powerless hospital: swaddle newborns in blankets and put them back into dead incubators, hoping they stay warm enough to survive.” https://t.co/YToe81Q1Ao

[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

What's (not) coming down the pipeline, from @IsabellaMWeber and @GregorSemieniuk

[Zak 🦦 Podmore @zak_podmore]

great piece by @gabydvj on the political incoherence of the Abundance and MABA movements, which have a difficult time squaring the American people’s love of public lands with ideologies built around privatization

[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

Here are current annual snowpack levels across the west compared to yearly averages.

Rough.

On yesterday’s show, I covered the Western Governors Association’s comments on ways they are trying to enhance the collective snowpack across the American West to reduce wildfire risk.

[🔥Brianna Bailey🔥 @briOKC]

When Oklahoma police officers suspected of misconduct move between agencies, the public can’t track them https://t.co/KGd4Ggd55D

[🔥Brianna Bailey🔥 @briOKC]

In a buried report, newly unearthed by @npbowlin, oil regulators pinpointed nearly 600 wells operating illegally, threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water. https://t.co/mOBTeznFtC

[Tala Ramadan @TalaRamadan]

BEIRUT, March 18 (Reuters) - War in Lebanon has wounded or killed the equivalent of one classroom of children daily and robbed the remainder of their sense of normalcy since it began two weeks ago, a top official of the U.N. children's agency said.

[Abbie Cheeseman @cheesemanab]

Entire building brought down in the middle of Beirut at 05:30 in the morning

[Clifton Adcock 🏴‍☠️ @cliftonhowze]

While most of #Oklahoma's congressional delegation sent Leadership PAC money to other candidates, two-thirds of Sen. Markwayne Mullin's went to other expenses, including luxury hotel stays, Washington Nationals tix, private jet rentals, golf outings & gear https://t.co/4zHhYGEDsp

[The Frontier @readfrontier]

Years ago, oil regulators took on an ambitious project to catalog all of Oklahoma’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite finding hundreds of rule violations, the state chose not to act.

https://t.co/0rj08jVl5n