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Fracking Wells Could Pollute the Air Hundreds of Miles Away
2015-05-01 14:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Air pollution from hydraulic fracturing operations can likely travel hundreds of miles, even into states with little or no fracking, a new study has found. The study, published in the journal Atmospheric Environment, looked at hourly measurements of air pollutants like ethane and methane - gases that are found in natural gas - in Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. between 2010 and 2013. It found that ethane measurements increased by 30 percent between 2010 and 2013 in the region. The...
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