The Health Effects of Fracking: Fracking Harms Human Health
- Abstract
Health and Energy Brief on the health effects of fracking. The peer-reviewed scientific literature now includes more than 700 studies on the impacts of unconventional gas development; most were published in just the last three years. Of the studies looking specifically at health impacts, more than 80 percent document risks or actual harms.
- Resource Type
- Factsheet/pamphlet
- Author
- Gina Angiola, MD
- Date
- October 2016
- Health and Human Impact
- Overview/general
- Climate and Environmental Impact
- Water
- Emission Sources
- Conventional energy Unconventional energy Waste Energy Conventional
- Fossil Fuel
- Overview/general
- Region
- Northeast
- Other
- Advocacy Policy United states