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The Other Hazard of Hydraulic Fracturing -- Silica in the Air

Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 03.31.2013 | Business
Read More: Horizontal Drilling, Gas, Silica, Proppants, Frac Sand, Oil, Frac, Niosh, Hydraulic Fracturing, Osha, Fracking, Business News
Robert L. Cavnar

This week, NPR broadcast an interesting report about a researcher who has been studying health effects on workers on frac crews. Not familiar with hydraulic fracturing, he expected to find the workers exposed to toxics in drilling fluids when he want on location. What he found was very different.

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The Dead and the Living

Anthony DePalma | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Charles S. Hirsch, Autopsy, James Zadroga Health Bill, Niosh, 9/11, Medicine, Ground Zero, New York News
Anthony DePalma

Formal guidelines would make clearer the extent of the disaster caused by working in the clouds of dust after the World Trade Center attack. This is a plea for medicine and science to step in.

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Mining Lobbyists Win, Companies Get First Look At Diesel-Cancer Study

Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Lung Cancer, National Cancer Institute, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Regulation, Diesel, Mine Safety, Patton Boggs, Osha, Study, Niosh, Mining, Henry Chajet, Cancer, Diesel Exhaust, Politics News

A long-delayed government epidemiological study of possible ties between diesel exhaust and lung cancer in miners may finally be published this fall -...

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Media Contributes to Victim Mentality as Gulf Struggles

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Benzene, Epa, Air Quality, Superfund, Bp, Toluene, Barataria Bay, Environment, Science, BP Oil Spill, Media, Oscha, Niosh, TAGA Route, Youtube, Toxic-Waste, Atakapa, Media News
Georgianne Nienaber

One of the most important issues facing coastal residents is air quality. Journalists have a responsibility to examine the science and the public has a responsibility to learn more about their environment.

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