Fracking Health

Seeking Fracking Health Facts

AP | BY KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 05.20.2012

PITTSBURGH -- Some people are absolutely sure gas drilling threatens public health, while others are absolutely sure it doesn't. Geisinger Health Sys...

NY Calls For Fracking Health Study

AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 05.13.2012

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Environmental and health groups are praising the New York State Assembly for including an independent health impact study of hyd...

Fixing A 'Gaping Hole' In Fracking

AP | KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 04.23.2012

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A nonprofit group has opened an office in western Pennsylvania to help the public with health concerns over Marcellus Shale gas dr...

CDC Scientist: More Tests Needed To Determine Gas Drilling Impact On Health

AP | By KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 01.05.2012

PITTSBURGH -- One of the government's top scientists says much more research is needed to determine the possible impacts of shale gas drilling on huma...

Gasland: Will New York Be the Next Casualty of the Halliburton Loophole?

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.17.2011

Alison Rose Levy

Though natural gas is marketed as the "safe" energy source compared with coal, according to an EWG report, a single well contains chemicals sufficient to "contaminate over 100 billion gallons of water."