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Pheonix’s heat killed more people in 2016 than ever before

Last year was the deadliest on record for heat-associated deaths in Maricopa County, according to the Department of Public Health: 150 people are confirmed dead from heat, with five more cases pending. That’s 65 more people dead from heat than in 2015 and 89 more than in 2014. The second-deadliest year on record was 2012, […]

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Apr 2018

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Doctors call for state ban on drilling and fracking

The Pennsylvania Medical Society has called for a moratorium on new shale gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing and is urging the state to establish an independent health registry and start studying fracking’s public health impacts.

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