Reporting on climate change impacts on marginalized communities May 2, 2024

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Tammy Murphy, advocacy director for the Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania, said her organization also struggles with literacy.

“When you’re doing scientific and health-based research and presenting it, you have to make sure it is readable to everybody,” she said.

Murphy recommends the latest edition of the fracking “Compendium,” a collection of around 2,000 abstracts and links to medical, scientific and investigative reports about the consequences of oil and gas drilling, fracking, and infrastructure to journalists when breaking down complex scientific issues to their audiences.

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