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Natural Gas Flowback: How the Texas Natural Gas Boom Affects Health and Safety
Natural Gas Flowback: the Dark Side of the Boom How the Texas gas boom affects community health and safety Published: April 14, 2011 By:...
Jan 31, 20132 min read
Taking a Harder Look at Fracking and Health
PHILADELPHIA – A coalition of academic researchers in the United States is preparing to shine a rigorous scientific light on the...
Jan 21, 20133 min read
Lawsuits from Families Harmed by Fracking
Read what families are going through in the face of fracking. These are real people, real families. This is their experience with...
Jan 5, 20132 min read
Former Gas Field Worker Blows the Whistle
Published on Dec 20, 2012 Williamsport native and formal gas worker David Bean describes what life on the job used to be like: spills,...
Dec 26, 20121 min read
MORE THAN 100 LEADING MEDICAL, SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS URGE WHITE HOUSE TO HALT RUSH TO EXPANDED SHALE GA
First, Do No Harm: Get the Health Facts Now Is the Message From Petitioners to Obama WASHINGTON, D.C.///December 13, 2012///Moving...
Dec 16, 20127 min read
New England Journal of Medicine Cites Fracking Industry for Non-disclosure
Fracking Industry Cited By Prominent Medical Journal For Infringing Upon Patient–Physician Relationship A report issued this month in The...
Dec 13, 20122 min read
AFL-CIO: Fracking Exposes Workers to High Levels of Silica and Other Health Hazards
05/22/2012 Ja-Rei Wang Click HERE to go to post If you work in the hydraulic fracturing industry—better known as “fracking”—you may be...
Dec 12, 20122 min read
Taking a Harder Look at Fracking and Health
PHILADELPHIA – A coalition of academic researchers in the United States is preparing to shine a rigorous scientific light on the...
Dec 10, 20123 min read
We can’t say we haven’t been warned
The latest alarms about fracking come from Pennsylvania residents who joined Delegate Heather Mizeur and others at a press conference in...
Dec 5, 20125 min read
An uncontrolled health experiment on an enormous scale
An uncontrolled health experiment on an enormous scale Those words are not the fired-up, angry rhetoric of a fracking activist but rather...
Dec 5, 20128 min read
Fracking Our Food Supply | The Nation
This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an investigative reporting nonprofit focusing...
Nov 30, 201217 min read
“Impacts of gas drilling on human and animal health.” New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and
Documents animal and owner health problems with potential links to shale gas drilling. Describes the expansion of drilling and fracking...
Nov 15, 20121 min read
Why Fracking Must Be Banned | Breast Cancer Action
Editor’s note: Sandra Steingraber is an acclaimed ecologist and author who explores the links between human rights and the environment,...
Nov 15, 20124 min read
Send Your Representatives “Gas Patch Roulette”
Counter industry denial: Send your representatives Gas Patch Roulette Earthworks released a new report last week, Gas Patch Roulette: How...
Nov 2, 20121 min read
An Exploratory Study of Air Quality Near Natural Gas Operations
Read entire report click here. Peer-reviewed and accepted for publication by Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (November 9, 2012). An...
Oct 31, 20121 min read
List of the Harmed | Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air
The following is an ever-growing list of the individuals and families that have been harmed by fracking or shale gas production in the...
Oct 15, 20121 min read
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