Kiley Bense

New York, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Writer and Journalist at Freelance

Reporter at Inside Climate News

Writer & journalist covering climate change, the environment, politics, and culture.

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From Louisiana to Pennsylvania, tracing plastics pollution back to its source

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Kiley Bense

The Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. (Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed)This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. While filming a documentary about oceans on a boat in the Pacific Ocean several years ago, producer and director Steve Cowan encountered a shocking scene.
New Trump Administration Directives to Repeal Environmental Regulations En Masse Make ‘No Sense,’ Legal Experts Say

1 week ago | insideclimatenews.org | Kiley Bense

Environmental lawyers say two new White House directives—designed to greatly expand executive power to strike down federal energy and environmental regulations—are not likely to hold up in court and represent an attempt to move far beyond the established boundaries of presidential authority.
From Louisiana to Pennsylvania, Tracing Plastics Pollution Back to Its Source

2 weeks ago | buckscountybeacon.com | Kiley Bense

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. While filming a documentary about oceans on a boat in the Pacific Ocean several years ago, producer and director Steve Cowan encountered a shocking scene. “We were surrounded from horizon to horizon by floating plastic,” Cowan said.
From Louisiana to Pennsylvania, Tracing Plastics Pollution Back to Its Source

2 weeks ago | rsn.org | Kiley Bense

The documentary “Single-Use Planet” follows the “river of money” underpinning the plastics industry in the United States. While filming a documentary about oceans on a boat in the Pacific Ocean several years ago, producer and director Steve Cowan encountered a shocking scene. “We were surrounded from horizon to horizon by floating plastic,” Cowan said.
From Louisiana to Pennsylvania, Tracing Plastics Pollution Back to Its Source

3 weeks ago | insideclimatenews.org | Kiley Bense

While filming a documentary about oceans on a boat in the Pacific Ocean several years ago, producer and director Steve Cowan encountered a shocking scene. “We were surrounded from horizon to horizon by floating plastic,” Cowan said. “I’ve never seen anything like it.” Cowan and his colleagues at the nonprofit Habitat Media wondered where all of this plastic was coming from—and why so much of it is manufactured in the United States.
From Louisiana to Pennsylvania, Tracing Plastics Pollution Back to Its Source

3 weeks ago | ecotopical.com | Kiley Bense

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Trump Administration Considers Giving Oil and Gas Companies More ‘Flexibility’ to Dispose of Highly Toxic Wastewater

1 month ago | rsn.org | Martha Pskowski |Kiley Bense

Technology to treat produced water has advanced. But critics warn against relaxing protections for disposal “of what is very hazardous material.”The Trump administration plans to increase “regulatory flexibility” for oil and gas companies trying to find ways to dispose of copious amounts of toxic wastewater. The wastewater, also known as produced water, comes back to the surface during oil and gas drilling.
Fracking Waste Crisis

1 month ago | loe.org | Kiley Bense

Air Date: Week of The expansion of fracking or hydraulic fracturing for natural gas is generating large amounts of waste contaminated with heavy metals and radiation. Some of it gets sent to landfills like one in the small town of Yukon, Pennsylvania. Kiley Bense of Inside Climate News explains to Host Jenni Doering how EPA has documented unacceptable levels of pollution draining from the landfill into a local creek.
EPA Considers Giving More ‘Flexibility’ to Dispose of Highly Toxic Wastewater

1 month ago | truthdig.com | Martha Pskowski |Kiley Bense

The Trump administration plans to increase “regulatory flexibility” for oil and gas companies trying to find ways to dispose of copious amounts of toxic wastewater. The wastewater, also known as produced water, comes back to the surface during oil and gas drilling. It contains both proprietary drilling fluids and naturally occurring hazardous compounds found in water underground, which can include organic compounds like arsenic and benzene, a carcinogen.
EPA Considers Giving Oil and Gas Companies More ‘Flexibility’ to Dispose of Highly Toxic Wastewater

1 month ago | insideclimatenews.org | Martha Pskowski |Kiley Bense

The Trump administration plans to increase “regulatory flexibility” for oil and gas companies trying to find ways to dispose of copious amounts of toxic wastewater. The wastewater, also known as produced water, comes back to the surface during oil and gas drilling. It contains both proprietary drilling fluids and naturally occurring hazardous compounds found in water underground, which can include organic compounds like arsenic and benzene, a carcinogen.

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