Marietta, Ohio, a historic city along the Ohio River, has become an unwitting hub for interstate fracking wastewater disposal, with hundreds of millions of gallons of radioactive brine pumped underground into more than 240 permitted injection wells statewide, far more than neighboring Pennsylvania’s 19 or West Virginia’s few dozen. Pennsylvania alone exported roughly three-quarters of its fracking brine needing permanent disposal to Ohio last year, and rural Washington County, home to Marietta, saw 59 percent of the 562 million gallons of waste injected under it over the past two years come from out of state. Ohio’s status as a dumping ground traces back to a decades-old federal decision allowing the state to self-regulate its injection wells long before fracking existed, making it easier to drill wells there than in states with federal oversight.

The wastewater isn’t staying underground as intended. Bob Wilson, who owns traditional oil and gas wells outside Marietta, has watched brine erupt from his own wells, telling reporters, “There should not be any water here at all,” while noting pressure readings higher than he’d ever seen, and he’s now suing several injection well companies after losing wells to the intrusions. Geologist David Jeffery of Marietta College said the flooded wells show brine is “migrating” through underground rock formations, a danger compounded by as many as 66,000 undocumented old oil and gas wells scattered across Ohio that could serve as unknown conduits for contamination. Cory Haydocy, former executive director of the Ohio Oil and Gas Commission, said, “The state and industry have possessed definitive proof for years that these injection wells were threatening the surrounding geology,” after the commission “explicitly confirmed” underground migration back in 2024.

The stakes are especially high because four injection wells within two miles of Marietta’s drinking water source have taken in wastewater from Pennsylvania fracking sites with median radium-226 levels ranging from 428 to 1,800 times the EPA’s drinking water standard, prompting City Council President Susan Vessels to warn, “If we get anything nuclear in our water, that’s it. We’re done.” After the state approved a fifth and sixth injection well near the city, officials declared an emergency last year, citing brine “regularly migrating to the surface” and seismic activity in Washington County that had increased nearly 20-fold since 2023, evidence they said showed underground rock formations were “moving and likely fracturing.” Marietta and eight other local water authorities have since called for a moratorium on new wells and a halt to injection within six miles of the aquifer, while a lawsuit from Buckeye Environmental Network and Earthjustice challenges permits issued to DeepRock Disposal Solutions, the company behind several proposed wells; in July, regulators shut down four injection wells in the county, including one owned by DeepRock, after determining nearby high pressures at wells like Wilson’s “could only be caused by nearby injection wells.”

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Very poor writing, but I'll still stick with it... maybe. After 3 episodes the storyline has so many plot holes and stupid writing, and is way too predictable. The only thing I could not predict was how stupid some of this writing can be.

I do not like when they are doing time period movies or series and don't take the details of the time period seriously.

For instance, this show takes place in the year 1980 and the FBI Special Agent In Charge of the operation to bust the mob is a black woman. The first black woman appointed to the rank of FBI Special Agent In Charge never happened until the year 2005.

Another thing that made it hard to take this show seriously is the hostage scene where the Gambino mobster Vinnie Zaccaro is tied to a chair in the abandoned building and Zaccaro tells his captors, "CALL HIM! THERE'S MY PHONE!" (this is f-ing 1980)

Then in the 3rd episode the lead young character Jimmy Roarke is ordered to do a mission with his soldiers to kill the entire Columbian drug dealer gang in the disco basement drug operation. They do that but then Jimmy spares one Colombian guy who had a high rank in the operation.

Why did he spare that guy? Apparently because they met in the disco the night before for no more than 20 minutes and that guy was nice to him.

Gimmie a break! This Columbian drug dealer he barely knows now knows exactly who killed all the guys in his gang and he lets him go because he was nice to him during a 20 minute meeting? GTFO of here with this dumb writing!

full article:

A Canadian woman got into a physical altercation with a young Trump supporter on the Jersey Shore — and the incident ended with her under arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

According to the New York Post, police have confirmed 33-year-old Kaitlyn Tracey "was taken into custody after she filmed herself confronting two girls wearing 'patriotic colored' sweatpants over Fourth of July weekend at Point Pleasant, one of whom she struck across the face and body."

After this incident, she was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, simple assault, harassment, and obstruction, and taken to Delaney Hall, a controversial privately operated, for-profit immigration detention center in Newark that is notorious for its substandard conditions.

Tracey's husband, Matthew Geroni, who has been living with her in Asbury Park since 2024, posted a video expressing his urgency to get her released by any means necessary, “even if that means back to Canada.”

Delaney Hall has been the site of a number of protests over President Donald Trump's immigration policies, including local lawmakers enraged that the Department of Homeland Security has ignored laws prohibiting immigration detention facilities in Newark.

Another altercation last year led to the arrest of New Jersey Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, whom prosecutors allege assaulted law enforcement and are charging her with offenses that could lead to as much as 17 years in prison. McIver has insisted she did nothing violent and is being targeted for lawful protest.

All because of tax cut for billionaires.

So lets see the MAGA people here defend that. This should be interesting.

At the beginning he’s interviewing the creator of the EUPHORIA series. I’ve never seen it but it has been on my list for awhile.

Then he says to the guy, “So spoiler alert, blah blah blah blah”, and he just ruined it for me with a very major spoiler. DAMMIT!!!! There was no effing reason for him to blurt that out and ruin it for a million people who never saw the series.