{"id":2137,"date":"2020-12-14T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=139176"},"modified":"2020-12-14T18:00:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T18:00:20","slug":"new-analysis-of-fracking-science-nearly-2000-studies-finds-grave-health-environmental-justice-and-climate-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/14\/new-analysis-of-fracking-science-nearly-2000-studies-finds-grave-health-environmental-justice-and-climate-impacts\/","title":{"rendered":"New Analysis of Fracking Science (nearly 2,000 studies) Finds Grave Health, Environmental Justice, and Climate Impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WASHINGTON – A new report from leading scientists, doctors, and environmental experts examining nearly 2,000 academic studies, government reports, and investigative reporting finds that drilling, fracking, and the entire fracked oil and gas cycle impose grave harms to human health and well-being and that those problems cannot be mitigated.<\/p>\n

Today, Concerned Health Professionals of New York<\/a> and Physicians for Social Responsibility<\/a> released the Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking, seventh edition<\/a>, which tracks, assembles, and analyzes key trends in the rapidly growing body of evidence about health, climate, and environmental justice consequences of drilling, fracking, and associated infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Overwhelmingly, evidence demonstrates that these activities are dangerous to public health, the environment, and the climate, and that there are fundamental problems with the entire life cycle of operations associated with fracking. Emerging science also shows that fracking is a grave environmental justice issue, with communities of color, Indigenous people, and impoverished communities bearing disproportionate harm.<\/p>\n

The Compendium reviews nearly 2,000 academic studies, government reports, and investigations of data by journalists about the environmental and health impacts of drilling and fracking. It is increasingly important to consider the whole body of evidence and identify key trends. That\u2019s what the Compendium uniquely does, allowing the public, elected officials, and regulators to consider the whole body of evidence, identify key trends, and utilize important new research as it appears, promoting health and potentially saving lives.<\/p>\n

Sandra Steingraber, PhD, co-founder of Concerned Health Professionals of New York and an author of the Compendium, said,  \u201cOur knowledge about the dangers of fracking is now both broad and deep. All together, thousands of scientific studies, reports, and investigations show us that extracting oil and gas by shattering the nation\u2019s bedrock with water and chemicals creates fundamental, intrinsic, unfixable problems. Toxic pollution, water contamination, earthquakes, radioactive releases, and methane emissions follow fracking wherever it goes. Some of these problems get worse after depleted wells are abandoned, and no set of regulations is capable of preventing harm.\u201d<\/p>\n