Universities Teaming Up to Assess Health Impacts of Gas Drilling

New York Times: A Green Blog post by Jon Hurdle describes what looks like a helpful new academic initiative to assess potential health impacts of the country`s gas-drilling boom: 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 polarized and often emotional debate over whether using hydraulic fracturing to drill for natural gas is hazardous to human health. Some five years after the...

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