Her team’s latest study that claims adverse health impacts associated with oil and natural gas development “cannot tell us that oil and gas caused any of these health outcomes,” admitted Lisa McKenzie, a researcher whose work is routinely cited by anti-fossil fuel activists, on a...
Now that the excitement has died down after news broke last Friday that a federal judge has ordered a retrial in last year’s highly-publicized Dimock nuisance case and thrown out a jury’s multi-million dollar award to plaintiffs, EID has had the opportunity to read through...
Forbes contributor Judy Stone, an infectious disease specialist from Maryland, recently used the final entry of her three-part anti-fracking series to push for a ban on fracking in her home state of Maryland. Not surprisingly, the final entry in Stone’s series (the first two entries...
A thorough review of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 666-page final drinking water report further solidifies what EID reported last week: the substance of the report — its actual data — reinforces the 2015 draft report’s topline conclusion that there was no evidence of “widespread,...
StateImpact recently published an article announcing an update to a compendium of anti-fracking health studies put out by Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and Concerned Health Professionals of New York (CHPNY). There were a few important details that were left out of the story, however....
A researcher who appealed to Josh Fox and Yoko Ono for funding after her work was rejected by the National Institutes of Health is back with a new paper claiming that shale development has the “potential for environmental release of a complex mixture of endocrine...
A new study developed by CNA Analysis and Solutions for the anti-fracking Delaware Riverkeeper Network makes the claim that “fracking could irreversibly damage the economy and drinking water” in the Delaware River Basin (DRB). Unsurprisingly, the report not only ignored the scientific consensus that hydraulic...
Researchers at the University of Texas – Arlington (UTA) this week released a study entitled “A Comprehensive Analysis of Groundwater in the Barnett Shale Region.” The authors speculate that oil and gas development is one possible cause of elevated levels of contaminants in some water...
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its long-awaited study on the relationship between groundwater and hydraulic fracturing, finding that fracturing technology has “not led to widespread, systemic impacts to drinking water resources,” as routinely claimed by oil and gas critics. The assessment, originally requested...
Today, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) issued at open letter to Governor Jerry Brown urging him to impose a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, “pending further study.” The letter, signed by “100 local officials,” was released at a press conference held at the California Democratic State Convention in Anaheim....
Last week, researchers from Duke, Dartmouth and Stanford Universities released a study focused on two “potentially hazardous contaminants” – ammonium and iodide – which, they state, are found at high levels in both unconventional and conventional wastewater. They then suggest that high levels of ammonium...
A new study, authored by researchers from Yale, the University of Washington, and Colorado State University, concludes that people in Washington County, Pa., who live within a kilometer of oil and gas wells suffer from more respiratory and skin conditions than those who live farther...