Fracking Your Health
NEW REPORT
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Do you, or your kids, or someone you know suffer from asthma?
Then you’d better hope you don’t live in an area where you’re exposed to a lot of fracking.
That’s the gist of a new report published recently in JAMA Internal Medicine, a publication of the American Medical Association. The report’s authors studied asthma patients who live in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale region, one of the nation’s largest and most active fracking regions. What they found is this: the greater the exposure to fracking, the higher the risk of asthma attacks.
Reporting on the study, reporters at Inside Climate News wrote:
Natural gas development releases various air pollutants including particulate matter, volatile organic compounds and sulfur dioxide. The equipment also produces loud noises and bright lights, which can increase anxiety and sleeplessness. Years of research show that all these factors can exacerbate asthma.
The paper adds to the growing research linking the natural gas industry to various health impacts including birth defects, respiratory problems and skin rashes.