A town hall meeting in Broomfield, Colorado, this evening provides opportunities for a smart, thoughtful, and fact-based discussion on oil and natural gas development in the area. Broomfield has long been a target of national “ban fracking” groups, including Washington, D.C.-based political activist group Food...
UPDATE (2/15/17, 5:35 EST) Dr. Larry Wolk, Chief Medical Officer and Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), has just weighed in on the latest study by Lisa McKenzie. Here’s what he had to say: We support studies that evaluate...
According to recent news reports, elected officials in Broomfield have invited controversial researcher Lisa McKenzie – a favorite of anti-fracking groups – to brief them on health issues and oil and gas development later this month. The officials believe McKenzie is an “academic neutral” on...
Yale School of Public Health has released a new report that was clearly meant to generate alarmist headlines, as it suggests that fracking can increase chances of childhood cancer. But this “study” has yet to gain any mainstream media attention, and even a quick look...
A new Environment America “report” uses a couple old anti-fracking tactics — exploitation of children and blatant misinformation from activist studies — to try to stoke fears and rally support for its extremist call to ban fracking nationwide. The ominously-titled “Dangerous and Close: Fracking Puts...
Perhaps motivated by the fact that their own research has failed to convincingly tie oil and gas development to reproductive problems, anti-fracking researchers from the University of Missouri recently released a “systemic review” of studies of the “association between oil and natural gas extraction processes...
Colorado’s top medical officer is once again debunking reckless claims from political activists about fracking and public health. As the Greeley Tribune reports, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) executive director and chief medical officer Dr. Larry Wolk says that when it comes...
A group of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, West Virginia University and Texas Tech University have recently released a new study charging that current setback distances in Pennsylvania, Colorado and Texas “cannot be considered sufficient in all cases.” Now, the anti-fracking echo-chamber is ramping...
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...
UPDATE (8/7/15; 9:50 am ET): Health professionals are noticing deep flaws in a recent University of Pittsburgh birth weight study. This week, the Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation, an organization focused on reproductive biology and women’s health released a statement on the study explaining that the researchers’ reliance...
This week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) announced that New York will not allow hydraulic fracturing to occur within the state, based upon a newly released report by the state’s Department of Health (DOH), which claimed that there isn’t enough scientific evidence to ensure...
Dr. Brian Moench, an activist with Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, calls people who work in the fossil-fuel industry “psychopaths” and says they are guilty of “treason.” On October 26, a Denver Post reporter, Nancy Lofholm, published a story implicating oil and natural gas...