News Director
I'm currently the news director at KCBX Central Coast Public Radio, covering local news from Salinas to Santa Barbara. Prior to moving to SLO County in late 2016, I reported for public radio stations in Unalaska, Haines and Sitka, Alaska, after earning a master's degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
For decades now, oil companies have been pumping wastewater deep back underground across California, via wells penetrating the same oil field. What does the science tell us about the health risks?
Neighbors of the oil field are concerned about the safety of their drinking water wells, should new drilling and waste disposal edge closer to their properties in the coming years.
For decades now, the petroleum industry has been disposing of wastewater generated through the oil extraction process by sending it deep back underground, via wells penetrating the same oil field. This is considered a safe disposal method by the industry—and regulators—due to underground geologic ba
