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Fracking industry wells associated with premature birth
2015-10-08 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Expectant mothers who live near active natural gas wells operated by the fracking industry in Pennsylvania are at an increased risk of giving birth prematurely and for having high-risk pregnancies, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests. The findings, published online last week in the journal Epidemiology, shed light on some of the possible adverse health outcomes associated with the fracking industry, which has been booming in the decade since the first wells were...
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