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Fracking Wastewater Is Cancer-Causing, New Study Confirms

GreenMedinfo.com     January 4, 2016
The fracking industry likes to call its product “natural gas,” but the natural consequence of its activity is the production of billions of gallons of cancer-causing wastewater.
A new study published in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology titled, “Malignant human cell transformation of Marcellus Shale gas drilling flow back water,” is the first study of its kind to confirm widely held suspicions concerning the carcinogenicity of fracking pollution.
The new collaborative study was conducted by …

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PA Study Links Fracking to Health Hazards in Fetuses, Infants, and Young Childre

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Ocean City, NJ – June 15, 2015 – In one of the first studies of its kind, Joseph J. Mangano of the Radiation and Public Health Project found disturbing links between hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and health effects in children younger than five years old.
In the report “Health Hazards to Fetuses, Infants, and Young Children in Heavily-fracked Areas of Pennsylvania,” funded by the Pittsburgh Foundation, Mangano explains that as a relatively new technology in the landscape of natural …

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PA Studies Link Fracking with Health Problems

 
DON SAPATKIN         Phila Inquirer        July 15, 2015
For all the talk about what hydraulic fracking might mean for human health, there has been little scientific evidence. That is slowly starting to change.
Research released Wednesday from the University of Pennsylvania found that as more wells were drilled in Northeastern Pennsylvania, hospital admission rates for cardiovascular events rose in the same areas.
A study last month from the University of Pittsburgh linked how far …

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Health Project Finds Air Pollution Could Pose More Threat Than Water Contamination

 
Health Project Finds Air Pollution Could Pose More Threat Than Water Contamination
 
Katie Colaneri        StateImpact PA      August 26, 2013 Email
A nonprofit health project examining the long-term impacts of natural gas drilling in Washington County has released preliminary findings that shows air pollution may be more damaging than water pollution, according to the Associated Press.
Since February 2012, the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project has gathered information from residents who believe their health has been affected by nearby …

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Gas Drilling Research Suffers From Lack of Funding

 The Associated Press         August 01, 2012
Is gas drilling ruining the air, polluting water and making people sick? The evidence is sketchy and inconclusive, but a lack of serious funding is delaying efforts to resolve those pressing questions and creating a vacuum that could lead to a crush of lawsuits, some experts say.
A House committee in June turned down an Obama administration request to fund $4.25 million in research on how drilling may affect water quality. In the spring, …

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Living With Methane Migration

Scott Detrow        StateImpactPA/NPR          July 31, 2012
Michael Leighton of Leroy Town­ship, Brad­ford County, has been deal­ing with methane gas seep­ing into his water well and onto his prop­erty for more than two months.
Yes­ter­day, StateIm­pact Penn­syl­va­nia doc­u­mented Leroy Township’s ongo­ing methane migra­tion prob­lems, which the Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion has linked to a Chesa­peake Energy well.
What’s it like to live with stray nat­ural gas bub­bling into your water well? Leighton gives StateIm­pact Penn­syl­va­nia a tour of some of the …

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Doctor Sues Over Act 13 “Gag Rule”

Susan Phillips     StateImpactPA/NPR      July 30, 2012
A Luzerne County doc­tor has filed a fed­eral law­suit against a con­tro­ver­sial aspect of Pennsylvania’s new drilling law. The law, now known as Act 13, requires gas drilling com­pa­nies to pro­vide health pro­fes­sion­als with health and safety infor­ma­tion on chem­i­cal expo­sures expe­ri­enced by indi­vid­ual patients. But the law also says those com­pa­nies may require health­care work­ers to sign a nondis­clo­sure agree­ment. How that aspect of the law gets inter­preted is con­tro­ver­sial. Gov­er­nor Corbett’s office …

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Labor Regulators Are Cracking Down On Gas Industry

 Times-Tribune     June 14, 2012
The Department of Labor has started a new effort to combat unfair pay practices in the natural gas industry in the Northeast, focusing on subcontractors who avoid paying taxes, overtime and workers’ compensation premiums by wrongly classifying employees as independent contractors.
The department’s Wage and Hour Division began the enforcement initiative this year, but it does not disclose the reasons for its investigations, a spokeswoman said.
In an article the Labor Department is circulating in industry …

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Fracking Trucks Hauling Sand Subject to Workday Limit

Jim Efstathiou Jr.       Bloomberg Businessweek      June 05, 2012
Truck drivers hauling water and sand to U.S. oil and natural gas shale wells can’t extend their daily on-duty hours by using an exemption targeted for special oil- field service equipment, the government said.
Time spent waiting while water and sand are unloaded at well sites counts toward the maximum 14 hours a day that a truck driver can work, the Transportation Department said in a rule clarification to be …

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Deadliest Danger Isn’t at the Rig but on the Road

Ian Urbina      New York Times         May 14, 2012
After working 17 hours straight at a natural gas well in Ohio, Timothy Roth and three other crew members climbed into their company truck around 10 o’clock one night last July and began their four-hour drive back to their drilling service company’s shop in West Virginia.
When they were just 10 minutes from home, the driver fell asleep at the wheel. The truck veered off the highway and …

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