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, […]
birth weight, fracking, Johns Hopkins, moms, mothers, natural gas, Pennsylvania, premature birth, public health, Sandra SteingraberReposted 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 […]
fracking, pinkwashing, Sandra SteingraberNew 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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