Kiley Bense
@kiley.bsky.social
Journalist at @insideclimatenews.org covering climate change, the environment, public health, and politics.
Recent work:
https://insideclimatenews.org/profile/kiley-bense/
Recent work:
https://insideclimatenews.org/profile/kiley-bense/
And thank you to the many people—scientists, activists, experts, residents—who spoke with me and met with me for this series.
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
And thank you to the many people—scientists, activists, experts, residents—who spoke with me and met with me for this series.
Thank you to everyone at ICN and beyond who contributed to this project: @jsmithhopkins.bsky.social @vernonloeb.bsky.social @derekh.bsky.social Andrew Lehren, Julie Grant, Kathy Knauer, and photographer Scott Goldsmith
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Thank you to everyone at ICN and beyond who contributed to this project: @jsmithhopkins.bsky.social @vernonloeb.bsky.social @derekh.bsky.social Andrew Lehren, Julie Grant, Kathy Knauer, and photographer Scott Goldsmith
For years, scientists and advocates have worried that fracking waste is getting into the environment in PA. A closer look at the waterways near landfills that accept this waste revealed a mixture of harmful contaminants: insideclimatenews.org/news/2112202...
The ‘Toxic Cocktail’ Brewing in Pennsylvania’s Waterways - Inside Climate News
Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of fracking waste, some of it radioactive.
insideclimatenews.org
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
For years, scientists and advocates have worried that fracking waste is getting into the environment in PA. A closer look at the waterways near landfills that accept this waste revealed a mixture of harmful contaminants: insideclimatenews.org/news/2112202...
Though the state had promised it would begin testing leachate for radium in 2021, we found that it never implemented this policy. At the same time, new research shows that fracking wastewater from PA is far more radioactive than was previously known: insideclimatenews.org/news/2012202...
Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste - Inside Climate News
Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far more radioactive than previously known.
insideclimatenews.org
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Though the state had promised it would begin testing leachate for radium in 2021, we found that it never implemented this policy. At the same time, new research shows that fracking wastewater from PA is far more radioactive than was previously known: insideclimatenews.org/news/2012202...
In analyzing state records for this waste, @peteraldhous.com and I found huge discrepancies, errors and a lot of troubling questions about oversight. Almost 1.4 million tons of waste was unaccounted for: insideclimatenews.org/news/1912202...
Tracking Oil and Gas Waste in Pennsylvania Is Still a ‘Logistical Mess’ - Inside Climate News
More than a decade after regulators promised to improve reporting standards for this waste, an Inside Climate News investigation found huge discrepancies in state records.
insideclimatenews.org
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
In analyzing state records for this waste, @peteraldhous.com and I found huge discrepancies, errors and a lot of troubling questions about oversight. Almost 1.4 million tons of waste was unaccounted for: insideclimatenews.org/news/1912202...