Compendium Of Scientific, Medical, And Media Findings Demonstrating Risks And Harms Of Fracking (Unconventional Gas And Oil Extraction)
July 10, 2014, Albany – Health experts and scientific researchers with Concerned Health Professionals of New York held a press conference in Albany today to release a major new compilation – a Compendium – of the scientific, medical and media findings demonstrating risks and harms of fracking.
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Read the letter to Acting Health Commissioner Zucker
Statement by Concerned Health Professionals of New York in Response to a New Study on Hormone-disrupting Contaminants in Water Near Colorado Drilling Sites
Of the 700-plus chemicals that can be used in drilling and fracking operations, more than 100 are known or suspected endocrine disruptors. Unique among toxic agents, endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) interfere with hormonal signals, are biologically active at exceedingly low concentrations, and, when exposures occur in early life, can alter pathways of development. Read full statement
Letter from Dr. Jerome A. Paulson to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
June 30, 2014 — Dr. Jerome A. Paulson, Director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, has sent a letter to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection concerning the effects of imminent decisions about gas extraction on children and community health. He emphasizes that it has never been documented that unconventional natural gas extraction (such as fracking) can be implemented with a minimum risk to human health. Read full statement