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Local Experiences Related to the Marcellus Shale Industry
May 10, 2011
Guthrie
Staci Covey, RN, MS, NE-BC, President, Troy Community Hospital, VP, Post Acute Care
Reducing The Staggering Costs Of Environmental Disease In Children, Estimated At $76.6 Billion In 2008
May 9, 2011
Leonardo Trasande and Yinghua Liu, Health Affairs
A 2002 analysis documented $54.9 billion in annual costs of environmentally mediated diseases in US children. However, few important changes in federal policy have been implemented to prevent exposures to toxic chemicals. We therefore updated and expanded the previous analysis and found that the costs of lead … Continue reading
Children’s Vulnerability to Toxic Chemicals
May 9, 2011
Philip J. Landrigan and Lynn R. Goldman, Health Affairs Volume 30
A key policy breakthrough occurred nearly twenty years ago with the discovery that children are far more sensitive than adults to toxic chemicals in the environment. This finding led to the recognition that chemical exposures early in life are significant and preventable … Continue reading
Report: hundreds of gas wells drilled near schools, hospitals
May 6, 2011
BY LAURA LEGERE, Scranton Times-Tribune
A state environmental group is calling on lawmakers to restrict natural gas drilling near places people live, learn and work after it released a study Thursday showing hundreds of wells have been planned or drilled next to schools and hospitals.
The study by PennEnvironment found … Continue reading
Public Health Implications of Hydraulic Fracturing
April 13, 2011
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Factors Affecting the Shift to Shale Gas
- Push toward alternative fuels
- Misperception that NG is a bridge fuel that is “clean”
- The profitability of exporting liquified NG (LNG)
- Development of high volume, slick water hydraulic fracturing
- Financial incentives to extract natural gas
- Dwindling oil reserves
-2005 … Continue reading
Global Climate Change and Children’s Health: Threats and Strategies for Prevention
March 21, 2011
Perry E. Sheffield and Philip J. Landrigan,
Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 119
Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 119
Background: Global climate change will have multiple effects on human health. Vulnerable populations—children, the elderly, and the poor—will be disproportionately affected.
Objective: We reviewed projected impacts of climate change on children’s health, the pathways involved in these … Continue reading
Does natural gas drilling make people sick?
March 8, 2011
David Frey, High Country News
Residents of Battlement Mesa, a sprawling housing development in western Colorado, are used to seeing the golf course from their windows, not gas rigs. But when an energy company announced plans to start drilling inside the subdivision, residents became concerned not just about the noise … Continue reading
Breathe carefully: air emissions of benzene may cause birth defects
October 26, 2010
Lupo, PJ, E Symanski, DK Waller, MA Canfield and LE Mitchellet. 2010.
Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental Health Perspectives
Pregnant women living in Texas neighborhoods with higher air levels of benzene – a pollutant oftenreleased from oil refineries and traffic exhaust – are more likely to have babies with neural tube defects.Women living in … Continue reading
The Whole Fracking Enchilada
October 1, 2010
Violating the bedrock, the atmosphere, and everything in between
By Sandra Steingraber, Orion magazine, September/October 2010
By Sandra Steingraber, Orion magazine, September/October 2010
I HAVE COME to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. And I think you should, too.
Saying so represents two … Continue reading
Natural Gas Operations From a Public Health Perspective
September 10, 2010
Theo Colborn, Carol Kwiatkowski, Kim Schultz, and Mary Bachran
ABSTRACT
The technology to recover natural gas depends on undisclosed types and amounts of toxic chemicals. A list of 944 products containing 632 chemicals used during natural gas operations was compiled. Literature searches were conducted to determine potential health effects of … Continue reading
