July 26, 2010

Urban Air Pollutants Can Damage IQs before Baby's First Breath

A study in Krakow, Poland, corroborates New York City findings that link children’s lower IQ scores with mothers’ exposure to compounds created by burning fossil fuels

 By Marla Cone, Emily Elert and Environmental Health News

 In a sweltering summer in …

June 23, 2010

A Colossal Fracking Mess

The dirty truth behind the new natural gas.
By Christopher Bateman (Vanity Fair)

Early on a spring morning in the town of Damascus, in northeastern Pennsylvania, the fog on the Delaware River rises to form a mist that hangs above …

June 19, 2010

Onshore Drilling Disasters Waiting to Happen: An Interview With 'Gasland' Director Josh Fox

Onshore Drilling Disasters Waiting to Happen: An Interview With ‘Gasland’ Director Josh Fox
By Nora Eisenberg, The Nation, June 17, 2010

Theater and film director Josh Fox’s documentary Gasland explores the new generation of natural gas drilling, which for a …

June 12, 2010

As Urban Gas Drilling Expands, So Do Health Concerns

Asher Price, American Statesman Staff

Texas Environmental Agency Accused of Lax Monitoring, Lack of Transparency

On a carved-out hillside beside Tandy Hills , one of the last undisturbed prairies in eastern Fort Worth, sits a gas drilling site belonging to …

April 23, 2010

Tainted Water Spurs Evacuations

Tainted Water Spurs Evacuations
By BEN CASSELMAN, The Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2010

Hundreds of people living near a natural-gas drilling site in northwest Louisiana have been forced to evacuate their homes after gas seeped into their drinking water.…

February 6, 2010

Gas Sites Spur Air Worries

Fort Worth, Texas, Officials Rethink Their Longtime Support for the Gas Industry
By BEN CASSELMAN, The Wall Street Journal, February 4, 2010

The city of Fort Worth, Texas, one of the biggest beneficiaries in the natural-gas boom, is questioning its …

January 4, 2010

Environmental Concerns Rise in NE PA as Natural Gas Drilling Spreads

Environmental Concerns Rise in Northeastern Pennsylvania as Natural Gas Drilling Spreads
Carolyn Weaver, Voice of America, January 02, 2010

Victoria Switzer and her husband, Jim, are building what they hoped would be their retirement home in the rural hamlet of …

December 30, 2009

NYS Conference of Environmental Health Directors: Comments on dSGEIS

Conference of Environmental Health Directors (CEHD)

Comments on the draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (dSGEIS) on Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale

Dear Mr. Dahl:

The Conference of Environmental Health Directors (CEHD) has reviewed the dSGEIS on Gas Drilling …

October 3, 2009

Water Worries Threaten U.S. Push for Natural Gas

Water worries threaten U.S. push for natural gas
By Jon Hurdle, Reuters, Thu Oct 1, 2009 8:26am EDT

(Reuters) – Louis Meeks, a burly 59-year-old alfalfa farmer, fills a metal trough with water from his well and watches an oily …

October 1, 2009

Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use

Committee on Health, Environmental, and Other External Costs and Benefits of Energy Production and Consumption;
National Research Council

Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy …

August 29, 2009

US Finds Water Polluted Near Gas-Drilling Sites

Potential obstacle for U.S. energy extraction
By Jon Hurdle, Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:54pm EDT

PHILADELPHIA, Aug 27 (Reuters) – U.S. government scientists have for the first time found chemical contaminants in drinking water wells near natural gas drilling operations, …

July 21, 2009

NYS Department of Health Addresses Concerns on NYS DEC dSGEIS

Edward G. Hom, Ph.D., Director
Division of Environmental Health

To: Bradley Field, Director, Division of Mineral Resources

Dear Mr. Field:

On March 10,2009 you requested that the New York State Department of Health Center for Environmental Health (CEB) review information …

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