Huge New Review of Fracking's Health Hazards Will Help Communities Fight It

By Erin Biba

AP

Activists call for a moratorium on fracking outside a climate summit in San Francisco.

A sweeping report that evolved from work that helped ban fracking in New York State has been released to help the public fight the practice as it pops up elsewhere across the country. Published last week by the Physicians for Social Responsibility (the group that won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for its work educating the public on the dangers of nuclear war) and the Concerned Health Professionals of New York (CHPNY), the updated report is an easy-to-read compendium of how fracking impacts our health, from the direct impact of wells and pipelines, to its role in exacerbating climate change.

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