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Nick Bowlin

@npbowlin

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

Katılım Mayıs 2016
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Nick Bowlin
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
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The Frontier
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. readfrontier.org/stories/oily-s…
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julie k. brown
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.
Katie Robertson@katie_robertson

New: McClatchy journalists at newspapers in 4 states are now withholding their bylines from A.I.-generated content as tensions grow over a "content scaling agent" tool that the company rolled out nytimes.com/2026/05/01/bus…

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Alex Lubben
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:
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ProPublica Guild
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: actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell…
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Ryan Grim
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.” nytimes.com/2026/03/26/wor…
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Zak 🦦 Podmore
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
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g a b y@gabydvj

wrote about conservative conservation and my weekend in tennessee with the young right-wingers who say they want to Make America Beautiful Again (MABA—still unclear whether it's pronounced mah-bah or maw-baw) harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

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Tala Ramadan
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.
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Clifton Adcock 🏴‍☠️
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 readfrontier.org/stories/markwa…
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The Frontier
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. readfrontier.org/stories/oil-re…
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The Frontier
The Frontier@readfrontier·
Federal rules do not require U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin to shut down his leadership PAC if he is confirmed to lead the Department of Homeland Security. The committee has spent money on flights on private jets, limousine rentals and luxury hotels. readfrontier.org/stories/markwa…
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