Major health survey links fracking in Pa., US to cancers, birth defects, other health harms October 23, 2023
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The ninth edition of a “compendium” of scientific, medical, government, and media reports on the industry’s health effects, released Thursday, contains references to almost 2,500 papers that add to evidence that fracking has an array of negative impacts on human health, the authors say.
The number of studies collected is now more than six times what it was when the first compendium was published in 2014, but the conclusions are the same, said Sandra Steingraber, the lead author, and a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Concerned Health Professionals of New York, which jointly published the 637-page document.
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