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Toxicologists are Taking a Harder Look at Fracking and Health
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Taking a Harder Look at Fracking and Health
Article from John Hurdle, New York Times, Green blog, 1-21-13
Marcellus Fracking Site
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 controversial combination of fracking and horizontal drilling in the gas-rich Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and surrounding states got under way, a team of toxicologists from the University of Pennsylvania is leading a national effort to study the health effects of fracking.
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