Project: TENORM Published: December 2023

by Joshua Boaz Pribanic for Public Herald

"I'm pretty sure I was at death's door. If I wouldn't have gone to the hospital and got oxygen and got help, I would've been in bad, bad shape."

Over the past six months, Public Herald has been contacted by four additional Eureka workers who are for the first time sharing their stories about the dangers of treating fracking wastewater.

Project: Yellowstone Series Published: November 2022

by Emma Lichtwardt & Joshua Boaz Pribanic for Public Herald

Public Herald has found that since 1948, in the name of conservation, the Montana government has been using a poison linked to Parkinson’s disease in lakes, ponds, and rivers across the state. And that EPA and state agencies have not fully disclosed its risk to human health. FWP records obtained by Public Herald show Montana agencies have applied rotenone 253 times at more than 200 different water bodies, to an estimated length of 533 miles of surface water.

The Yellowstone series from Public Herald is investigating the pollution and treatment of waterways in Montana, and throughout the United States. If you have a story to share about water, contact our team. For more stories in this series subscribe to newsCOUP.

Project: newsCOUP Published: October 2022

“Everybody right now that’s in the DEP’s oil and gas management are liars,” Barr told Public Herald. “They’re really, really bad. They’re covering up, and they just cover up, cover up.” Just north of Pittsburgh, close to the city’s water supply, an injection well in nearby Plum Borough suffered mechanical issues in 2021 the same time that residents next door reported water problems. DEP concluded that the injection well wasn’t causing their water pollution.