Research Needed On Impacts Of Fracking

Research Needed On Impacts Of Fracking by Knovel Corporation, August 2, 2012, whyknovel
In the past few months, both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Pennsylvania state government have decided against funding research efforts into fracking’s health and environmental consequences. “Right now, the kind of comprehensive research that’s needed just hasn’t started,” Bernard Goldstein, professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, told the AP. … Despite this, the AP notes that natural gas companies run the risk of exposing themselves to greater liabilities by failing to support strong independent research into the effects of fracking.

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