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Cancer in Kids Is Too High a Price for Cheap Gas
Three new studies link natural gas production to health risks, including a higher risk of lymphoma among children who live near fracking wells.
Too close for comfort.
Photographer: Charles Mostoller/Bloomberg
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America’s fracking boom has given the country inexpensive and secure energy. It has also spewed climate-wrecking greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. And evidence is mounting that it is gravely harming the health of people who live nearby. Is this a price we’re willing to pay for cheap gas?
Three new studies released this week by the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health found links between hydraulic fracking for natural gas and serious health problems: