Babies born to moms who lived near fracking wells faced host of health risks, study suggests
- Abstract
After combing through a decade’s worth of Pennsylvania birth records, researchers have found that pregnant women living within two-thirds of a mile of a hydraulic fracturing well were 25% more likely to give birth to a worringly small infant than were women who lived at least 10 miles outside that zone during pregnancy.
- Resource Type
- Magazine/newspaper article
- Author
- Melissa Healy
- Resource URL
- http://beta.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-fracking-infant-health-20171213-story.html
- Publication
- Los Angeles Times
- Date
- December 13, 2017
- Organization Type
- News
- Health and Human Impact
- Overview/general
- Emission Sources
- Conventional energy Energy Conventional