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Statement from Americans Against Fracking Re: Comprehensive New Study Linking Premature Births and At-Risk Pregnancies to Fracking

October 14, 2015 / / Press

Data on over 10,000 pregnancies in Pennsylvania from 2009 to 2013 show odds of premature births increase 40 percent when expectant mothers live in heavily fracked communities Washington, DC — In peer-reviewed research published last week in Epidemiology, a high-impact public health journal, scientists from Johns Hopkins, Brown, UC-San Francisco and UC-Berkeley reported that shale gas drilling, […]

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birth weight, fracking, Johns Hopkins, moms, mothers, natural gas, Pennsylvania, premature birth, public health, Sandra Steingraber

OCT 9: Pinkwashing: Fracking Company Teams Up With Susan G. Komen to ‘End Breast Cancer Forever’

Reposted from EcoWatch By Sandra Steingraber What do you get when you cross a breast cancer charity with a frack job? The answer is the image below, which, as I am writing, is going epidemically viral. It’s hard to stop staring in utter baffled amazement. Is it some kind of … phallic cyborg? The opening scene […]

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fracking, pinkwashing, Sandra Steingraber

SEPT 16: Experts, Actor Mark Ruffalo Call on Obama to Ban Fracking in Lead Up to People’s Climate March

New Report Reveals Methane from Fracking as More Dangerous Than Carbon Dioxide, Biggest Climate Threat; #DontFrackOurClimate Campaign Announced NEW YORK – As the People’s Climate March approaches, experts, community leaders and actor, director and anti-fracking activist Mark Ruffalo called on President Obama Tuesday to ban fracking as a new report highlights the devastating climate effects […]

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climate change, fracking, Mark Ruffalo, People's Climate March, Sandra Steingraber, Tony Ingraffea, Wenonah Hauter

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